restrictions tomorrow. we ll make sure there is no travel from south africa and six other countries. we were concerned if we could come back home. with lessons learned, scientists are rushing it evaluate the threat. you can take a covid test on site and they give you this little at-home test kit. that definitely feels different, when you come home and see all of that going on. i m kaitlyn collins in washington. you re live at the cnn newsroom. tonight countries around the world are scrambling to respond to a concerning new variant known as omicron. could it cause more severe disease or at least a dozen countries are detecting cases of omicron including those showing red on this map. canada just now confirming its first two cases. multiple countries including the united states are shutting their doors to south africa and the neighbors in an attempt to contain the variant but preventing it from spreading entirely will likely be impossible. those suspicions have spar
the iron rule of xi jinping. strong man, authoritarian dictator he has become. he s the most powerful man in the world of today. he created a personality cult around himself. his vast ambition. the chinese military grown dramatically over the course of the last few years. we deserve this. we want this and we are going to take this. the threat to america. you want your men to 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. lamborghinis and ferraris and a lot of people were getting very, very rich. but get too rich and you m may disappear. where is jack ma? publicly criticized the chinese authorities. you can t do that in china. #. fight the system? #. xi jinping will meet you with massive force. religion can make yo
Imperialism, the whole world would become socialist. mao s successor had a polar approach. millions have died for a lack of food his main goal was to make the country rich so he opened its borders to trade and saw peaceful coexistence with the west. xao ping came up with a theory that he called hide your strength and buy your time. invest in the chinese economy and ease your way into the international system. china funded the u.n. and provided humanitarian aid, a remarkable turn around from the days of mo. the chinese communist party is about to announce a new leader. when xi jinping took power in 2012.
Confident host xi jinping who now has absolute authority over 1.3 billion people, a growing economy and xi spent his first five-year term, purging the ranks of rivals and tightening restrictions on pretty much every aspect of chinese society from religion to culture to the internet. what happens significantly at the party congress which has concluded, his name and ideology were enshrined in the party s constitution, what that does, that dpifrs him statue held only by ma se tongue and xao ping. he is cheering author tain rule. as you mentioned, this is something he did to the leaders of they and the phillipine, ironically that other message of kim jong-un, that congratulation