The scene had worried international observers.
Last October, in the middle of the party's closing ceremony, Xi Jinping had former head of state Hu Jintao fired.
A new manifestation of the disproportionate and increasingly centralized power of the current president.
This documentary, as fascinating as it is effectively produced, analyzes this authoritarian drift, which is paralyzing China.
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It also sheds light on the peculiarities of a country that is sometimes difficult to understand, marked both by the omnipresence of the Communist Party, which is as much a Soviet organization as a secret society, and by economic ultra-liberalism.
A country where, explains a disgraced billionaire, the yuan ultimately belongs to an all-powerful “red aristocracy”.
To say so is to take the risk of being captured and coerced into a confession worthy of Soviet trials.
One fears a little for those, certainly today in exile, who testify here.
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The documentary ends with images of the demonstrations last December.
Exasperated by sanitary measures, thousands of Chinese took to the streets.
Until the government doubts its policy of “repression” against the Covid-19.
But will these outbursts have a more favorable outcome than those in Hong Kong, which occurred in 2019?