The China Century

The opposing forces of openness and control in modern China are explored, as the dreams of the State and the people collide.

Over the span of a few decades, China reinvented itself into a new centre of the world's economic gravity. But what are the repercussions of such rapid growth?

Since the culmination of its revolution in 1949, China has sought to recover control of previously lost territories. What lengths will the State go to achieve reunification?

With Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 on the basis of "One Country, Two Systems," the stage was set for tensions that led to its recent crisis.

The contest of economic, ideological and military power between the United States and China is the defining battle of our times. But can either of them really win?