As President Bush arrives in Shanghai for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, where he will meet with China’s president Jiang Zemin, FRONTLINE and The New York Times join forces to explore the U.S.-China relationship. As much as trade or the need for cooperation in the fight against terrorism, it is the flashpoint issue of Taiwan — the capitalist and now democratic island that China has been trying to reclaim for five decades — that remains the greatest source of tension between the world’s most powerful country and its most populous one.

As Hollywood releases “The Insider,” a controversial new movie dramatizing how CBS executives spiked a “60 Minutes” investigation on the tobacco industry, FRONTLINE presents an encore broadcast of “Smoke in the Eye,” its 1996 investigation of that journalistic debacle.

THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE is a documentary about the protests at Tiananmen in 1989, and the resulting Beijing Massacre of June 4. The film explores the history of the demonstrations and comments on the “deep structure” of political habits and attitudes that have informed public life in China over the past century. The filmmakers present a wide range of Chinese perspectives on a defining moment in China’s modern history.

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