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10 Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union
For decades, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was presented to the outside world as a land of progress: new factories, new cities, new…
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Top 10 TORRID LOVE LIVES of Hated DICTATORS
This video counts down the torrid love lives of ten hated dictators, turning from their public crimes to their private relationships. It looks at…
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The Chinese Economy in the Next 30 Years: Political Reform vs. Status Quo?
This video looks ahead to the Chinese economy over the next thirty years and asks a central question: can China keep growing without political…
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China: Friend or Foe?
This video asks a direct question about China: friend or foe? It examines the rise of China as an economic and military power and…
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China’s Century of Humiliation
No phrase in modern Chinese politics is more powerful than the Century of Humiliation. It refers to the period from the mid-nineteenth century to…
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Gen. Robert Spalding: On the Hong Kong Protest, US-China Trade War & ‘Parasitic’ China Economy
This interview features retired United States Air Force General Robert Spalding, speaking about the Hong Kong protests, the trade war between the United States…
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US-China Trade War & Hong Kong Protests Expose China’s Critical Weaknesses—Steven Mosher
This video features Steven Mosher, a specialist on China, arguing that the trade war between the United States and China and the protests in…
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China vs USA: Geopolitics of the new Cold war
This video examines the geopolitics of the new Cold War between China and the United States, asking how two deeply connected economies became rivals…
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Zhang Xin: China’s real estate mogul
Zhang Xin is one of China's best-known property developers, and this film tells the story of how she built a real-estate empire in Beijing.…
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China’s Geography Problem
China is a vast country, but its geography presents a problem that has shaped its history. In the west are high mountains and deserts,…
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How is CHINA challenging INDIA?
China and India are the world's two most populous countries, and this film asks how China is challenging its great Asian neighbour. The two…
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Traitors Within – Spies Who Sold Out America
During the Cold War, the greatest threat to American security sometimes came not from outside the country, but from within it. The video below…
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Secrets Of War, Deadly Intelligence 01 Mao’s Secret
Every revolution has an official story, and the Chinese Communist Party's official story was written with unusual care. Mao Zedong appears in it as…
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Inside Putin’s Russia
When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, many observers assumed that Russia would follow a familiar path: from a one-party state to a…
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Hong Kong police face off with protesters as airport protests erupt in chaos
This report shows Hong Kong police facing off with protesters as demonstrations at the city's airport erupted into chaos in August 2019. Thousands of…
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How Africa is Becoming China’s China
This documentary explores how Africa is becoming China's China, examining the deep and growing ties between China and the African continent. It looks at…
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Why is the CHINESE Economy ADDICTED to DEBT?
This video asks why the Chinese economy has become addicted to debt, and what that dependence means for the world's second-largest economy. It traces…
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China: Spies, Lies and Blackmail
This investigative documentary, Spies, Lies and Blackmail, examines allegations of Chinese espionage and influence operations in Australia and the wider West. It looks at…
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Exposing China’s Digital Dystopian Dictatorship
China has built the most extensive system of digital surveillance the world has ever seen, and this documentary exposes how it works. Cameras watch…
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What is the human cost to China’s economic miracle?
This documentary asks what the human cost of China's economic miracle has been, looking beyond the impressive growth figures to the people who made…
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Communism advances in Latin American
Latin America has returned to the left again and again, in country after country, across more than half a century. That is the pattern…
