Obama in Egypt. GM in bankruptcy. And a French airliner goes down. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

In today’s first hour, James Fallows noted that the Chinese government is avoiding any mention of the 20th anniversary, on June 4, of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The event is effectively being erased from collective memory.

We’ll look at America’s banker — China — and what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is bringing home from Beijing.

A year ago this month, On Point went to Shanghai. And what a year it’s been. We’ll turn our microphones back to China, for the Chinese view now.

They’re calling it “GhostNet” — a vast cyber-spying network, suspected to be run from China. We talk with the computer sleuths who uncovered it, and ask them how they did it.

We talk with Jan Wong about her search for the woman she betrayed during China’s Cultural Revolution — and what she found.

The Atlantic’s James Fallows is back from China as America transfers power to a new president. We’ll ask how it all looks to the China maven.

With falling exports, closing factories, and fear of social upheaval, we’ll look at what China does now, with top observers in Shanghai and Beijing.

Crunch time on Tibet. China smacks down autonomy. Tibetans talk of independence. The Dalai Lama says be careful. We’ll look into the Himalayas.

The women behind much of the word economy. We look inside the lives of China’s factory girls.

Listening to our first hour this morning, I was struck by several comments about the glossy postcard image of China as presented on TV.

From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.

China’s superstar pianist Lang Lang is 26 years old, and the face of a new China. He had a big role in the Olympic opening ceremonies, and he joins us from Beijing.

We take one last look at the backstreets of old Beijing, with an American who lived there, before the Olympics plow their memory under.

The Beijing Olympics are about to open. Whatever happened to all the campaigns to leverage China on Darfur, Tibet, and more, with the Games?

Scouring China for the perfect cup of tea. A new exploration asks whether industrialization is watering down an ancient tradition.

See the special site we created for our week of broadcasts from Shanghai, where you’ll find all ten shows, along with links, slideshows, videos, music, and listener comments. Plus, our host Tom Ashbrook’s daily posts.

The images out of China are heartbreaking. Whole villages essentially flattened by Monday’s powerful earthquake in mountainous Sichuan province. Schools down. Hospitals down. Grieving families standing in the rain.
And now, news of dams at risk of bursting. Maybe 20,000 dead. Maybe many more.
Beijing has responded with a hundred thousand soldiers and a national call for [...]

China’s big road to the Olympics is turning into a hard course in global pushback and big power comeuppance. The image of the Olympic torch being hustled through a rolling hail of protest over Tibet and human rights is clearly excruciating for Beijing.
But while the torch gets hustled, Chinese wealth and power continues to mount. [...]

A year ago, without warning, China shot one of its own satellites out of the sky. The U.S. protested loudly. But what a difference a year makes. The U.S. Navy is preparing to take out one of our own ailing spy satellites with a ship-launched missile — perhaps tonight.
The bus-sized satellite carries half a ton [...]