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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