to the world with dramatic reforms and a piece of advice. hide your strength and bide your time. the hiding and biding are over. the iron rule of xi jinping -- >> a strong man, authoritarian dictator that he has become. >> he is the most powerful man in the world today. >> he has created a personality cult around himself. >> his vast ambition. >> the chinese military has grown dramatically over the course of the last few years. we deserve this, we want this, and we're going to take this. >> the threat to america. >> you want to man 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. >> lamborginis and ferraris. a lot of people were getting very, very rich. >> but get too rich, and you might disappear. >> where is jack ma? >> publicly criticizing the chinese authorities. you can't do that in china. >> fight the system, xi jinping will meet you with massive force. religion can make you an enemy of the state. >> cultural genocide going on here. >> what is the end game for china's supreme leader xi jinping? >> china's time is now. >> china has risen. >> good evening. i'm fareed zakaria. one in five people on this planet lives in china, 1.4 billion people. and the rise has been remarkable. in just a few decades, cities three times the size of new york sprang up out of dusty farm fields. 800 million people climbed from poverty to the middle class. beijing now has more billionaires than any other city in the world. china is, of course, a dictatorship. it forbids political expression, religious freedom. anger is government, and you can simply disappear. but for years, this once close country seemed to be opening up. not anymore. one man has changed the course of history. china's supreme leader, xi jinping. should the u.s. be afraid? should the world? polls show they already are. more than 80% of americans do not trust president xi. the numbers are similar in democracies across the globe. and now new fears about china's growing military might. who is xi jinping? what does he want? let's start with two crucial days this year. the beating heart of democracy, the u.s. capitol. the beating heart of communism. tiananmen square. the certification of a new american president. the 100th anniversary of the communist party. a triumphant china, bursting with pride, marching as one. in washington americans at war with each other, tearing democracy apart. >> the chinese government saw that. >> xi jinping is said to have watched january 6th with revulsion. >> that cannot happen in china. no. none of that is acceptable to the chinese government. >> that was a moment of the chinese saying, those americans, they're not who they think they are, and they're not who we think they are. >> he sees the united states as in a real decline, and he sees a lot of dysfunctionalty in american society. systemic racism, black lives matter, political gridlock in washington, the trump years, charlottesville. >> they see themselves as promoting order against the forces of chaos. and increasingly they see the united states as representing the forces of chaos. >> there was a time when xi loved america, especially the heartland town in iowa. he studied farming there in the 1980s. then came back just as he was about to become president of china. i feel, he says, like i'm coming home. >> i want to welcome vice president xi to the oval office. >> xi also went to the white house. and in l.a. he took in a lakers game. >> self-confident, gregarious, even westernized in his way. >> america was charmed. >> it was inappropriate, but i love that man. >> so, how did that xi jinping, viewed with so much hope, how did he become this xi jinping? >> xi jinping making a veiled threat against the united states. >> anyone who tries to bully china, he says, will be banging its head bloody against a great wall of steel. >> this indelible phrase that struck people around the world. >> many china scholars do not recognize the xi jinping they see now. >> i didn't see -- i don't think any of us saw -- the dig toirl, sycophantic control freak that he has become. >> china is much more of a dictatorship today because of xi jinping. >> that's a recipe for serious danger. >> xi jinping is the most repressive leader china has seen since chairman mau. in just the last few months, he has handed down dozens of new orders. they see greater state control over everything from education to technology to entertainment. >> things as simple as who you can admire in the movies, every piece of entertainment culture. >> no more e feminine men on tv. china calls them sissy men. >> which rock stars you idolize. >> karaoke songs that endanger national identity. video games. >> you want control of what's in my heart and what's in my mind, what's left of me? that's a dangerous thing actually, a risky thing for the government to do. >> china has always censored the internet, but now it's scrubbing its own homemade entertainment. popular television shows and movies have disappeared. and of course there is no google, no facebook, no snapchat, no instagram. some of that predated xi, but he has doubled down on a separate chinese technosphere. >> the chinese government said we're actually going to separate. we don't want a worldwide web. >> they have, you know, tens of millions of monitors of social media 24/7 watching, taking down postings like whack-a-mole. >> step by step over the course of the years that xi jinping has been in power, he has been eating away at the domains of autonomy in chinese life and consolidating it into the hands of the party. >> in fact the scholar economy describes xi jinping as embodying the country's third revolution. first game mao, the founder, then xiaoping, the reformer. and now xi jinping, bringing the communist party back into dominance everywhere. >> the chinese government really now controls the physical environment of the chinese people through hundreds of millions of surveillance cameras and drones that can identify a chinese person through facial recognition or even by how a chinese person walks. all of this information is transmitted back to china's public security bureaus instantaneously. >> what they've instituted under xi jinping is an artificial intelligence and surveillance system that is unprecedented. this is orwell on steroids. that includes a xi jinping app on your cell phone. >> the xi app is on many chinese phones. its purpose? to help people study xi jinping thought. that's right, study what he thinks about everything. >> xi jinping sayings, his speeches, his activities and party dogma and then take quizzes. and they have to report those quizes to the local party head in the work unit. >> there's even a game show. "how much do you know about xi jinping thought?" much of xi jinping thought is communist ideology and the central role he believes it should play in chinese life. but there lies a central conflict. he is preaching strict adherence to socialism in a country where capitalism has been exploding for decades. >> socialist economy that was also one of the most ravenous consumers of luxury goods, things like lamborghinis and ferraris and rolexs and louis vuitton. >> the rich have been getting richer and in some cases more decadent. there's a school for butlers and a finishing school for children of the rich. young chinese billionaires often behave as badly as their counterparts around the world. >> translator: it's like raising a child. i have deep affection for my dog. >> this young man started a chinese version of pets.com, then used his money to build a mansion for his dog. xi is now cracking down on all kinds of private enterprise. >> he doesn't have a problem with them getting rich, but he wants them to get rich in a patriotic way. >> at the point at which it began to feel as if it was brushing up against the outer edges of his power and authority, that's the point at which it became ill tolerable. >> and he may be trying to quell a deeper fear. could communist china collapse the way the soviet union did? >> the dying gasp of the soviet system. >> always in the back of his mind is the subject of the soviet collapse. why did it happen? >> for xi the fall of the soviet union became an obsession. >> xi jinping often talks about the fall of the soviet union as a lesson for china. >> what accounted for it? what were the stresses. >> why did soviet union collapse? >> xi's answer? don't try to be too american. >> even though china has emulated america, china is still after all a socialist country. >> whatever economic reforms they engage in, you cannot allow political liberalization to accompany it. >> and he would point to the soviet example as a sign that that's the risk we face. >> and that means the party must be seen as strong, clean, and legitimate. it's ironic because no one has suffered 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 wants to reassert his control over the communist party. he accused it of being too liberal. he called for young people to rebel against the elite of their own party. >> basically turned chinese life upside-down. all of the most powerful people found themselves suddenly attacked and criticized, often by some of the least powerful people. 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 created the people's republic of china. >> so, his son had the best of everything. >> he literally grew up in the leadership compound in the center of beijing where all the leaders work and seniors lived. he had a privileged existence in a socialist society. >> they used to call themselves born red, which means that they had been brought into this world with the expectation that they would eventually lead and would eventually take over the country. and then it all came apart. >> first, xi's father was arrested, supposedly for supporting a play in a book that criticized mao. his mother was forced to denounce his father. one of his sisters reportedly committed suicide. >> because she was being hounded so much for the family's political problems. and that's a fact that you won't see in the official party histories. >> xi, still just a child, was forced to fight for his life in the streets of beijing. >> there was nobody at home. there were no parents at home for a very young teenager. >> and that teenager was trying to survive in the chaos of a revolution. >> the culture revolutions was this implosion of chinese society right down to the family level, just this kind of inferno of all of the bonds of trust and hierarchy that organized society. >> in his late teens, the party sent xi out to work as a pe dis peasant in the countryside. >> he spent many, many, many years in a very poor county in northern china basically doing manual labor, being a farmer, feeding bigs. >> after years spent working as a farm hand, xi made a decision about his future. >> xi jinping did a very surprising thing ch, which is t he applied to become a member of the party. and not just once. he was rejected over and over and over again. he was rejected because his family name was now poisoned in chinese politics for this period of time. >> finally he gained admission to the party and began an almost 40-year climb up the ladder. but why? why would xi jinping, a victim of some of the worst cruelties of communism, devote his life to strengthening the party? >> xi jinping decided that his response to all of this pain and turmoil was to become, as he said, redder than red, to become the truest of true believers. >> the traumatic childhood of xi jinping might have made him softer. instead, it made him hard as steel. next up, china versus the world. >> china is rising. china is becoming more assertive. and this is scaring countries. >> when you have the president of the united states in the form of former president trump rallying against china, accusing china of raping the united states, you want to corner china? you want to man handle china? china will stand up. card. ♪ my songs know what you did in the dark ♪ ♪ so light 'em up, up, up light 'em up, up, up ♪ ♪ light 'em up, up, up ♪ ♪ i'm on fire ♪ ♪ so light 'em up, up, up light 'em... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. ♪ i'm a reporter for the new york times. if you just hold it like this. yeah. ♪ i love finding out things that other people don't want me to know. mm-hmm. 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need to remember china's first leader mao zedong. mao was one of the world's most notorious revolutionaries. hell bent on destroying western capitalism. >> guerilla war has accomplished its aims. >> inspiring insurgencies all over the globe. >> burma, tieland, malaysia, the philippines, the khmer rouge in cambodia. >> they call themselves marxist len nist maoist. >> the shining path guerilla movement. >> even a nuclear apocalypse was acceptable to mao in his great struggle. if worse came to worse and half of mankind died, he said, imperialism would be raised to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. mao's successor had a different approach. his main goal was to make his poverty stricken country rich. so, he opened its borders to trade and sought peaceful coexistence with the west. >> he came up with a theory that he called hide your strength and bide your time. just steadily invest in the chinese economy and just ease your way into the international system. >> the first peace keeping engineering unit. >> china funded the un and provided humanitarian aid, a remarkable turn around from the days of mao. >> the chinese communist party is about to announce a new leader. >> but when xi jinping took power in 2012 -- >> what can china and the world expect from the leadership of xi jinping. >> -- the time for hiding strength and biding time was over. xi declared a great rejuvenation for china, a return to its historic place as an undisputed world power. china once called itself the land between heaven and earth. outpacing the west with its innovations like the compass and gunpowder. >> other countries would come and pay tribute. >> but beginning in the 19th century -- >> the great city of shanghai on a september day in 1937 -- >> foreign powers carved up the country, a period that became known as the century of humiliation. xi wants to move far away from that story of victimization and seize china's destiny as a superpower. >> there's a sense of entitlement that this is our due. this is where we should be. >> and our fate is in his hand. >> xi transformed china's military into a force that now rivals america in the region. and he's not afraid to use it. >> two nuclear powers facing off. >> in 2020 china seized about 100 square miles along its disputed border with india. >> they fought with fists, c clubs, and rocks. >> at least two dozen died in vicious hand-to-hand combat. >> they built airfields with ports, deployed weapons there. >> xi's fast growing fleet has extended influence into the south china sea. >> china claimed virtually all of it. >> harassing dozens of vessels. >> china is, quote, not frightening to fight a war with the u.s. in the region. >> and even sinking ships. >> the international blowback against china, the willingness to see china as a threat is directly because of xi jinping. >> xi's most defiant move occurred in hong kong. >> hong kong belongs to china once again. >> back in 1997 when the british returned the city 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beginning xi jinping very much needed jack ma. >> china had missed the industrial revolution in the 19th century, and america had invented the internet by the end of the 20th century. >> china was not even connected to the internet yet. we started. >> two decades after dung xiaoping opened china's doors, jack ma had his moment. >> china is opening the door. >> he founded alibaba in 1999 as an online marketplace for small chinese businesses. >> all of these individual workers and small businesses around the country could suddenly be connected to the rest of the world. >> the company became an internet bow hee method. it's china's ams, google, ebay, paypal, and more. by 2014 jack ma had arrived on the new york stock exchange to ring the bell. it was the world's biggest initial public offering. >> it beat out facebook, intel, amazon, you name it. >> it unlocked a huge amount of potential. >> check giants like alibaba show cased china's rise to the leading edge of economic and technological power. when xi took control in 2012, many expected him to continue to open china's economy like his predecessors. >> there was a belief among all the leaders in the west that china would continue to integrate towards a private sector-led system. >> after decades of growth fuelled by china's private sector, xi had inherited the world's second largest economy. but china also faces serious challenges, an aging population, crippling debt, and a slowing export machine. >> a big concern for the leadership was how to keep the growth going. >> so, they unleashed the tech sector. at first the company seemed like copy cats. that changed fast. >> no one out there thought that china today would be at parody with united states and major technologies. they thought these guys would steal stuff. >> by 2020 the tech sector had exploded in size and impact. in some areas, china's tech was outpacing the united states. tiktok had taken the world by storm. didi beat out uber in china. jack ma's digital payment system made cash and credit cards in china obsolete. and the parent group of ali pay had grown into a financial giant. >> jack ma was a great asset for china but from the communist party's perspective a huge threat. >> only days before the group was anticipated to launch on the shanghai and hong kong stock exchanges. >> china putting the brakes on the world's biggest ipo. >> this is a stunning turn of events. >> suddenly everything came to a screeching halt. >> what happened? >> based on all reporting, president xi jinping himself personally intervened to stop the ipo from going forward. >> with global investors still reeling, jack ma seemed to suddenly disappear. >> there are growing questions about the whereabouts of chinese billionaire jack ma. >> where is jack ma? >> ma had given a speech accusing china's regulators of stifling innovation in a room full of government officials only ten days before the planned ipo. >> you can't do that in china. >> if jack ma believed he could challenge the political leadership and the party itself, then the entire et fis of control in china was at risk. >> the communist party had allowed the group and other tech parties to grow largely unregulated for a decade. they had created a capitalist free for all, a wild west, in which the government had little say. >> companies seem to have amassed huge power. we've got the data. they've got the technology. they've got the capital. >> xi jinping decided enough, and began the crackdown on big tech. >> this was this sudden assertion of political power in the face of what had felt like this almost inevitable growth of chinese commercial and capitalist power. >> xi wants capitalism but with a state that is in ultimate control. when jack ma appeared for the first time in a video since his disappearance, he seemed uncharacteristically subdued. is this the necessary reining in of a system or the end of china's capitalist golden age? >> even if it costs him economically 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[ speaking foreign language ] >> just one in a series of strikes that rocked that country and killed dozens. the bloodshed reaches china's very heart, tiananmen square. >> those attacks really shook xi jinping. >> xi jinping has vowed to catch and severely punish those responsible. >> the attackers are uighurs, a largely muslim ethnic group with its own language and culture. for xi jinping the uighurs become public enemy number one. he launches an unprecedented mass surveillance of their population. china's xinjiang region, building re-education camps that have locked up over a million people and ripped loved ones away from their families. former camp prisoners say uighurs have been tortured, forced into having abortions and even sterilized. detainees are brain washed with communist party ideology. they're forced to speak mandarin rather than their own native language. and they're forbidden from practicing the religion they followed their entire lives. >> there is a kind of cultural genocide going on here. >> why is xi doing this? because he sees uighurs as a threat to china's very survival. he's afraid they will split from the country and form a whole new nation. separatism is one of xi jinping's greatest fears because he's seen it bring down a giant before. >> the symbol of the soviet union fluttered down in a freezing moscow wind christmas night. nothing will ever be the same. >> when the soviet union was teetering on the edge of the collapse -- >> gorbachev has destroyed the whole country -- >> many of its republics demanded independence. >> delicate fabric holding together the soviets is unraveling. >> one by one, those republics -- >> es stone i can't, lithuania. >> each dominated by a different ethnic group declared themselves free. >> the ukraine became the seventh -- >> the ninth republic to officially declare -- >> the 12th to declare independence. >> the lesson xi took from that? allowing cultural separatism could trigger collapse in china, just as it had in the soviet union. so, he is stamping out diversity in favor of a national chinese identity loyal to just one thing. >> i love the communist party of china, this man has written. >> the accusation is there is a kind of forcible brainwashing of the uighurs in detention camps that look a lot like concentration camps. is part of the danger, is part of what president xi worries about, a danger of separatism? >> separatism is a crime in china. if anyone in china wants to split any part of china against china, he or she becomes our public enemy. >> xi and his loyalists often respond with what aboutism. they argue what about american human rights abuses? >> if any country has practiced genocide, it's not china. the enslavery of negro americans for hundreds of years, that's the real crime against humanity. >> china's abuses are mostly hidden from western eyes. >> why you are here? >> we're here to film what we believe is a camp for uighurs. >> cnn journalists have been shut out of the camps. xi's war on the uighurs is part of a larger campaign to snuff out separatist threats everywhere. from xinjiang to tibet to hong kong. it's one of the final pieces of china's revolution under xi jinping. >> for years china had had an almost apologetic approach to its human rights abuses. xi jinping said that's no longer how we're going to talk about it. we're not going to apologize. they were just going to do it. >> for all the kcriticism from the west, it's important to understand that in china, there is not much sympathy for the uighurs. populist nationalism has swept the world, and china is no exception. xi jinping has used that nationalism to keep his and the communist party's iron grip on power no matter what the cost. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ with chase security features, guidance and convenience, banking feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. as carla wonders if she can retire sooner, she'll revisit her plan with fidelity. and with a scenario that makes it a possibility, she'll enjoy her dream right now. that's the planning effect, from fidelity. as a professional bull-rider i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 665 dollars. hey tex, can someone else get a turn? 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