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1: In 2012, I went to Beijing to cover the leadership change at the top of the Chinese communist party
9: and for the first time I thought, you know what,
12: they might not make it.
14: Because people in China are so angry about
17: corruption,
19: About food safety,
21: About the environment.
23: And they blame the party, because the party is in charge.
25: And I stood in Tiananmen square, which had been completely emptied of people- it's that organised a place-
31: and I thought, you know, once every 10 years they tell the people there's going to be a new leadership.
36: They give them no information.
38: They can't even find out about it on the Internet.
42: The phrase 'Xi Jinping', that's the name of the new leader, is blocked on the Internet.
45: And then at the end of their party congress in the great Hall of the people, they wheel out seven people.
50: So they wheel them out,
52: men who nobody in China knows much about.
55: They say: 'look this is your new leadership'.
57: And I thought, in 10 years time can they really do that?
60: Can they keep people in ignorance that long?
64: I've always thought, you know, that America is on the way down, China's on the way up.
68: The economic situation in China, they're doing so well.
72: And this time, for the first time, in 2012, I thought:
76: You know what, I'm not sure the future is going to be like that.
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Another video from Channel 4's reviews of 2012, this time looking at the situation in China. How does this compare with the situation in China now? Did the presenter's predictions come true?
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