when i was last in china more than a generation ago the loudest noise was the tinkling of bicycle bells now are just tired the streets were dark the universities were closed the chaos of the cultural revolution had given way to a great silence where exhausted was the freest comment i heard coming back the change was barely comprehensible here in shanghai the freedom bears no comparison yes there are issues with human rights especially the right to speak against the state and challenge its power since i was last here millions of people of been lifted out of poverty many of them into an entirely new middle class this epic is still barely understood in the west or should that be wilfully misunderstood the truth is that china has matched america at the cern great

game of capitalism and that is unforgettable. one measure of china's new capitalism is the run rich list this league table of china's mega rich has published by rupert who can more than older tony and his chinese name is who run he's received many awards including china's man of the year. this year 2015 it's probably been the most extraordinary year of wealth creation in the history of china again you know i've been doing this list for 1516 years i've never seen a year like 2 $1015.00 you know normally for $200000000.00 pounds or $300000000.00 we find say by $800000.00 people this year 2015 is doubled they'll be more dollar

billionaires known about in china than in the u.s. so the u.s. up until now has been the leader in terms of business. even the most successful business tycoons in the world. china 2015 with their take in the usa amazing. modern china is full of telling irony is not released this museum that was once the house where mounties comrie secretly founded the communist party of china in 1921. today it stands in the heart of an exclusive fairy capitalist shopping district.

when you leave the shrine to china's great revolution you're confronted by a surreal spectacle for right outside where the chinese communist party was born other very symbols of capitalism starbucks apple cart here. and down there perhaps the free market the greatest triumph bottled water but in shoals you live beyond costing 6 pounds for a small bottle in my hotel. now spin and as to if he was here i'm not so sure hidden history is always a key to the truth 5 years before his great communist revolution in 149 mts sent this secret message to washington china must industrialize wrote mao this can only be done by free enterprise chinese and american interests fit together economically and politically america need not fear that we will not be

cooperative we cannot risk crossing america we cannot risk any conflict. mal received no reply. nothing has changed. miles say tongue was looking to be a friend with the united states from the beginning miles says i will go meet franklin roosevelt in the white house moll reaches out $950.00 to harry truman he reaches out to dwight eisenhower his hand was tossed away. this opportunity that might of changed history prevented was saved countless lives was lost because the truth of miles of the true was was denied in the washington of the 1950s. stayed to pop and officials who had carried mao's messages were condemned done justly as communist traitors.

everybody who knew my who spoke chinese was gone in the 1950 s. the state department had no employees who spoke cheney it's resulted in us not having relations with the number one most populous country in the world in 1979 this man then. became china's paramount leda he said socialism does not mean shit poverty. this was code for the most radical reform since miles revolution. the return of capitalism to china but this time controlled by the communist party. to be rich's glorious day was reported as saying. america was now threatened by the

emergence of a vast image of itself. this is one of the many very exclusive gated communities in shanghai where an apartment has one of the prices of the new communism. i had a range to see professor zion way way a close aide to the late things out paying the man who changed china. though in. really extremely. long. visionary the leader always exceed the long turn strategic vision for his country for his people that china is to you for the past you know they're true this is really a tradition from china's long history you look at even like mao he said we should

suppose you could. supply. so they could didn't use to this that the. of actually or many chinese have problem with the western media is this theory about china if you. contend with fear it hypes you missed so many things you know if the b.b.c. broadcast something they are happy to always mention this comment is to dictatorship this autocracy not actually with this label you cannot understand this china as it is but if you watch b.b.c. c.n.n. or read economist and try to understand china it will be a failure it's impossible. multiple parties fight for political power and everyone voting on them is the only path to salvation for the long suffering that's. a

shanghai entrepreneur educated in america and typical of a new confident outspoken political class in china there are a lot of problems but at the moment the chinese the party state has proven an extraordinary ability to change me i make the joke. in america you can change political parties but you can't change policies. in china you cannot change the party but you can change policies. so in a 65 or 66 years china is being run by one single party yet. the political changes that have taken place in china in the past 66 years have been wider and broader and greater than probably any other major country in modern memory so in that time china seems to be communist separate will say well china is

a market economy and survive a market economy but it is not a capitalist country here's why there is no way a group of billionaires could control the politburo. the owners control american policy making so in china you have a vibrant market economy but capital does not rise above political authority capital is not does not have in trying rights in america capital the interest of capital and capital itself has risen above the name of the american nation the political authority cannot check the power of capital and that's why america is a catalyst country but china is not this is the ironic title of a bestselling book by zhang leisure

a journalist and critic who lives in beijing. many americans imagine that the chinese people live miserable repressed her life these no freedom must have a. now that's not quite sure if you toss speak to many ordinary chinese people they will tell you they feel their life i quite free some 500000000 people being lifted out of poverty and some would say probably 600000000 people that's a great achievement. for many americans their yellow peril has never left and i think of the there's the fear about china of course there's the fear for china as a rapid rise but is also has not to do. with china's. the label as communists and states china subject of some modest compare where their weight they're not trying to run the world they're not even trying to

run asia pacific i think they want to keep america from dominating the asia pacific so they have what they believe is their rightful place in asia pacific because alonso was asian our history and their size so their objectives are really modest compared with their capacity the the world for new wealth in china and i often say this is this is the product of so far made entrepreneur skill but it's also the product of the exploitation of people after the bottom what are known in china as migrants but they're not really migrants so. if you really. go to talk to these my woodworkers you will find quite surprisingly. over the past 5 to 70 years they have experienced. greater increase there

in the social groups china not a car society. but china is a class society. these are the homes of migrant workers people who build and service the new china. here it's not uncommon for 3 families to share one tiny flat. you know you would see that socialist country was equality but a unfortunately since the reform has started china has become one of the most unequal societies in the word the income gap is widening governments i feel have retreated some of the responsibility left the markets to takeover by the market

does not always treat women kindly. private companies they would just refer is too high and challenged bearing age women and sometimes when women become pregnant they want them because they don't want to pay their matelote leave and in fact the income gap has grown much bigger between men and women your old boss. presided over the bloodshed and tear them square what would you say to the survivors of tiananmen square because so many of those did fight for what very saw as democratic change in china. in 1809 there were 2 political force one was those rupees only by the chinese students their hero was me how you gorbachev who happened to be

a cheap one. their slogan was severe unions today china's tomorrow so the idea was political reform 1st other reforms 2nd otherwise china will be hopeless and the mess you which opposite he saw go but who will eat it now he sought you know china must have economic reform 1st as a reform 2nd this priority must be set clear. canara is the front line of a beckoning war with china we can't continue to allow china to rape our country and that's what they're doing there never have been 2 countries more into dependent on each other then china and the us in history so there's like a total disconnect with the changing world you have a giant rising power in this case china. why would you expect the giant pricing

power to not want to have more control over its test or does a cent. what is that what's the purpose i mean where are we going to stop this process before it starts a war. and then if the war starts where does that end. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when myth was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part 2 on a josie. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told pretty we might go to tibet or we had died last week

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