新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/05/17（在线收听）

明日一票“中国通”韩国特使团将空降中国，豪华阵容不容错过

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi.

Coming up:

--South Korea's former Prime Minister will visit China from Thursday as a special envoy of President Moon Jae-in.

--China and the Philippines are set to hold their first session of a bilateral consultation mechanism on South China Sea issues.

--The White House denied media reports that Trump asked Comey to drop Flynn investigations.

For more on this, CRI's Suyi is now joined on the line by Zhao Hai, Research Fellow, National Strategy Institute, Tsinghua University；Youfa LIU, Senior advisor, the Pangoal Institution；Rick Dunham,Co-director, Global Business Journalism Program, Tsinghua University.