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China’s Empty Cities
China built new cities at a pace the world had never seen, and this film walks through the ones that never filled up. Rows…
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Why is the CHINESE Economy ADDICTED to DEBT? –
China's economy has grown on borrowed money, and this film asks why it became addicted to debt. Local governments borrowed to build roads and…
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America’s Fundamental Misunderstanding of China | Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean diplomat and academic, argues in this talk that America fundamentally misunderstands China. The United States, he says, sees China through…
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How is CHINA challenging the AMERICAN EMPIRE?
The United States has been the world's most powerful country for most of the last century, and this film asks how China is challenging…
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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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Hidden state: Inside North Korea | Fault Lines
North Korea is one of the most closed countries in the world, and this Fault Lines documentary tries to look inside it. Through smuggled…
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Life on the line: Inside Venezuela’s crisis
This report takes viewers inside Venezuela at the height of its crisis, following ordinary people whose daily lives were put at risk by shortages,…
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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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Venezuela: Humanitarian crisis and the fight for power
This report examines Venezuela's humanitarian crisis alongside the political struggle for power that deepened it. As shortages of food and medicine grew, hospitals deteriorated…
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‘Hora Cero’: Venezuela’s crisis through a mother’s eyes
Hora Cero, or Zero Hour, tells the story of Venezuela's crisis through the eyes of a mother, bringing a national emergency down to the…
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Breaking Point: Venezuela’s Horrific Food, Medicine Shortage
This report, Breaking Point, documents Venezuela's horrific shortages of food and medicine, and the moment when a slow-moving crisis became an emergency for millions…
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Venezuela’s children flee the country’s worsening crisis
This report focuses on the youngest victims of Venezuela's worsening crisis: children fleeing the country, often with their families and sometimes alone, in search…
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From riches to rags: Venezuela’s economic crisis
In the 1970s, Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the Americas. Its oil paid for modern highways, universities, hospitals, and a middle…
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Venezuelans commemorate 20 years of Socialism
This report shows Venezuelans commemorating twenty years of socialism, marking two decades since Hugo Chavez took office in 1999 and launched the Bolivarian Revolution.…
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Venezuela Collapse Explained
Venezuela should not have collapsed. That is the puzzle this explainer sets out to solve, step by step. The country holds the world's largest…
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Is CAPITALISM coming to NORTH KOREA?
This video asks a provocative question: is capitalism coming to North Korea? For decades, North Korea was presented as a closed, centrally planned economy,…
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Why is CHINA cutting ties with NORTH KOREA?
This video asks why China, North Korea's closest ally and main economic lifeline, began cutting ties with Pyongyang. For decades, China had shielded North…
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Why does NORTH KOREA have NUCLEAR weapons?
This video asks why North Korea has nuclear weapons, and what the regime hopes they will achieve. It traces the programme from its origins…
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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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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…
