the iron rule of xi jinping. strong man, authoritarian dictator he has become. he s the most powerful man in the world of today. he created a personality cult around himself. his vast ambition. the chinese military grown dramatically over the course of the last few years. we deserve this. we want this and we are going to take this. the threat to america. you want your men to handle china? no. none of that is acceptable to the chinese government. controlling the chinese people, east, west, north south. the party must control all. hundreds of millions of surveillance cameras and drones. big brother is always watching. there is the freedom to get rich. lamborghinis and ferraris and a lot of people were getting
the fall of the soviet union as a lesson for china. what accounted for? what were the stress? why did the soviet union collapsed? xi s answer, don t try to be too american. even though china has emulated america. china still is a socialist country. whatever economic reforms they engage in. you can t allow political liberalization to accompany it. he would point to the soviet example as a sign that s the risk we face. that means the party must be seen as strong, clean and legitimate. it s ironic because no one suffer more under communism than xi jinping himself. to understand it we have to go back to tell the dramatic story of xi s childhood.
it begins in the 1960s. the chaos of the cultural revolution. chairman mao wanted to reassert his control over the communist party, he accused it being too liberal. he called on the young people to rebel against the elite of their own party. basically turned chinese life upside down. people fell themselves attacked and criticized. and xi jinping was right at the center of the storm. at the center of the storm because he was a son of privilege. his father was one of the leading revolutionaries of his generation. one of the people that will created the people republic of china. his son had the best of everything. he grew up in the leadership
we are going to separate, we don t want a worldwide web. they have tens of millions of monitors of social media 24/7. watching and taking down postings like whackamo. step by step over the years xi jinping has been in power, he s eating away the domain of autonomy of consolidating the hands of the party. now xi jinping bringing the communist party back into domi dominance. today s government really now controls the physical environment of the chinese people through hundreds of millions of surveillance cameras and drones that can identify