Xi Jinping, China's president, is the world's most powerful man 

I think China's government is constantly changing. It is not communist, nor is it a dictatorship(it's closer to a hybrid between meritocracy/technocracy and authoritarianism), with hints of socialism. It is relatively stable, but also very flexible, perhaps drawing its roots from Confucianism(for social hierarchy and stability) and Taoism(for adapting to the changes of the outside world). It is not bogged down by lobbyist groups of corporate interests. It is extremely efficient, and almost always achieve its goals much like completing a checklist(sometimes surpassing the goals by a large margin), but is done at the expense of some human rights. But when given the choice of having freedom or being well-fed, many would probably choose the latter because what good is freedom when people lack SECURITY in their life. They need the security that comes with not needing to worry about their next meal and having a house to live in. The people are not interested in politics, as long as their government delivers the results, they will be satisfied. Because elections today look more and more like a popularity contest, with candidates often making empty promises to appeal to the people's emotions(which creates bias in their decision making), and the corruption that leads to a rigged election, I would say China is not ready for elections, but also, it should not adopt it because it would not be a right fit for their politics-avoidant society. What people don't know is how women's rights has improved drastically, with Chinese women wielding more power than other Asian women(yes, including South Korea and Japan). However, while domestic abuse against women has gone down in China, domestic abuse towards men has gone up, which is a very strange situation that needs to be resolved. It is troubling how there is no mention of this at all documenting the rapid progress in women's rights that grew almost as fast as the economy. Perhaps the media has become money-obsessed, choosing to focus solely on China's economic progress, but failing to mention the hidden progress in human rights. Nowadays, you would only hear people shout "China's economy is going to collapse!" or "China's political system will collapse!" and "China has the worst human rights record!" without digging deeper into what is actually happening, choosing instead to blindly follow all the negatives about China that the media focuses on. Because, generally, human rights develop alongside the economy and vice versa. Remember the smog in London in 1962 caused by industrialization? The Gilded Age(the late 19th century to the early 20th century) in the USA, where corporations neglect worker's rights? Right now, China is caught in between these two time periods, and in a few more years, human rights will also start pouring in if their economy was to achieve a sustainable growth(which is what many nations wanted because they believe that China will eventually become a democracy when their economy becomes developed). However, it does not mean that China will have a democracy, but this does not mean that you can't have human rights under a government that is not a democracy. Sure, you won't have a vote, but I think everything else is much more important, given the fact that less than half of eligible voters actually voted in elections in the U.S. here. Because the Chinese government knows that if it doesn't start giving out human rights soon, it may not be able to stop a rebellion of over a billion people. The government is truly at the mercy of its people, and if it wants to continue to rule over the people and hold the Mandate of Heaven, it must show COMPETENCE. It does not matter if they're corrupt, as long as their actions produce positive results for the people, they will be accepted by the people, which is how it always has been for the past 2,000 years.

1997: China will collapse in recent years. 2007: China will collapse in recent years. 2017: China will collapse in recent years.

Someone is scared of COMPETITION on the World stage. And its NOT China.

What’s the point of having two parties when neither of them can be satisfying

After 5 years subscribing to The Economist, I decided to stop this year. The Economist, in my view, should take some responsibility for misleading the West into today's mess (and continuing to do so) with its in-depth bigotry and expert misinformation.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build wind turbines!

Come on The Economist, you can do better than this. "One Man Rule"? Really? You know that it's not true. China bashing because your website is blocked in China is really low.

WooooW.... Im so impressed of chinese people and Xi JinPeng. To unite such a nation and make it so prosperious without war and hostility? That is super amazing and I love the stories of ancient China and how brilliant they were in science, and blessings to the Chinese Republic

我是印尼汉人，我看到我们的祖国越来越强大了，我真的很高兴，我们汉人也有5000年的历史，不曾侵犯外国或别族的领土，只有被外国侵犯过，我只希望全世界的汉族同胞可以团结，咱们的祖国越来越强大，让外国或外族人可以尊重咱们汉族就可以了，至于那些汉族看不起汉族的人，就让他们认贼作父好了，和外界抹黑，就别理他们就好

economist: xi's power is fragile! two years later:xi's power is more solid.😂

1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt. 1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing 1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth. 1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy. 2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin. 2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China. 2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing 2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China.. 2004. The Economist: The great fall of China? 2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China 2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing? 2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing? 2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China? 2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover. 2010: Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China. 2011: Business Insider: A Chinese Hard Landing May Be Closer Than You Think 2012: American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing 2013: Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China. 2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing …. 2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China 2017. ...(｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡) ...

Those of people who never went to China， Please go look around any places， Shanghai，Shenzhen，Beijing，even Country side，is super develop，they are rich. world biggest factory of all kind, Respect to Chinese people, they made everything cheap that everyone could buy, Cant imagine the world without China, it will become a big mass.

Economist, Look I'm sorry guys but the typography effects look goofy and ridiculous... This is The Economist for fuck sake... When I saw "IRON FIST" text bouncing, I almost thought I was watching a high school Powerpoint presentation in 2003

From Chinese perspective, the centralized power is rather stable and not dangerous due to its unique nature. Chinese histiry has proved a truth thousands of times that a decentralized government would separate this country to many and it is a bad thing for both people and the nation because in these decentralized kind periods 70% Chinese was killed (Jin dynasty). That's why in recent 1200 years all Chinese government(no exception) is centralized.

I don’t know politics but for me China is like iOS system and democratic countries are like android system.

You call Xi the strongest Chinese ruler since Mao, then make the case . . . but the case you make really doesn't sound much different from the way Deng wielded power.

As long as he is the winner of that power wielding and internal purging game. He is qualified to sit in that chair. Surpassing 1.4 billion people means you have specialties on self-controlling and decision making.

Thank You China for giving us safe vaccines I have been vaccinated with Sinopharm 🇨🇳 wish you strong health and prosperity Chinese friends

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China is not one-man rule. It has its own political system which is very different from the west, but it works and will continue to evolve. Chinese people knows more than ever what is good for them, we don't need the west to judge and preach

Correction: China now has a larger ppp economy. America has the larger nominal one

The music makes the dragon’s ascent 🐉 even more epic.

Who tell you his power relies on repression?China relies on the people.We have our own history and theories based on our own national conditions.What we have today is based on these theories.We need to judge this fact fairly

Yawn.... A high school student could have put together a more insightful video than this. This looks like you took all the cliches and misunderstandings Westerners have about China and threw them all into one video.

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In China, politics is just like managing a huge company. At least leaders in China share the same expected goal and long-term strategy, they're responsible to develop and enhance it in progress. The problem in democracy country is, a change in leadership may inevitably ruin former leader's strategy, then a lot of issues will occur and efficiency will be sacrificed.

I dont know why this video make me inspired, and motivation for my exam

When you Yankees were British at the time of looting Native red Indians China was there and when your Britain itself hadn’t grown as a nation China was there. Every Yankees should know that Chinese civilization is the third oldest one after Persian and Ancient Greek civilization.

Xi Jinping is the most chad leader

That power was never a fragile, that power was even more stable.

Its slowing cause chinese economy already in their mature period just like europe, europe stuck in 1%, why dont u talk about it? Let me guess next episode dictator erdogan, dictator modi, dictator my ass

Rise of Asian power and falls of western power.

When Jesus comes every king will fall . Amen .The real king is coming soon . Time is up . 👑

In western，they believe their political system is the best in the world，haha

China is not a country but a culture looks like a country! The things that the Economist can not understand!

Seems like comrade Jinping is drawing inspiration from Stalin

Hope of mankind, we’ve had enough of USA ...

THE WESTERN MEDIA'S HYPE IS SO SYNCHRONATED IT'S DAMN FUNNY

BRAVO CHINA❤

Only one thing our government focus on that is how to make people in China have better life. Indeed, we are no.2 economic entity in the world, but China still is a DEVELOPING country.We still have two hundred million poor people in our country. We still need developed countries' attention and care. We will not become threaten, I don't know why someone think that we will fight them while we are most powerful.

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the very weaknesses mentioned in this video are the weaknesses of the U.S, thanks for pointing them out for us as we know how strong the Chinese political system and their economical system which should be a rule model for all of world countries but pointing the U.S weaknesses is a very difficult task but this video provides little help in that regard. By opening this video I though I would seeing an unbiased summery about the Chinese President to know him better but it appears that this channel is not the place to look for such information.

The greatest dictator usually turns out to be the last dictator. The question is whether Mr Xi is the one who puts an end to it or the one who the end was put to.

Hey! It's winnie pooh!

is Democracy a good system? Please take a look at China and India. We have been putting the democracy in an experiment for 20 years , Who wins now!?

He is not only powerful but also clever and wise. " the world is not poor, there is plenty for everyone but is full of poor people" FIDEL CASTRO

Look up 'What Xijinping Wants' it's a much more comprehensive explanation of who he is.

Thank you jesus from new Zealand island s

Which melody is the video using?

Can i use this video please 🙏

China is “innovating” (though not really intentionally) in politics, where they have a type of rule that is not been done before. It is not democratic, neither is it dictatorial. It is a hybrid, and one that is pragmatic. Historians will look at all the failures of western democracy, and find a comparative discussion of the uniqueness of China’s political system in contrast to it.

Today the Economist has called me and asked it I wanted to renew the subscription after it expires in 1 month. I told them I will think about it. Thanks to this video, I won't be renewing it.

2:57 I think you should say: But his power relies on repression and capital

Fat Pooh bear he's not soft he's not cuddle he's just a fat Pooh bear where's his pants!!!!

He started his business from just 10,000 dollars (converted to US dollars), look up his story from poor rice fields to a president- that's a real man right here worked physically and mentally to get where he is today.

Cool music...

Can't believe it. The Economist has gotten so low in bashing China and Chinese leader.

We clearly know who is funding the economist ha

only one thing is obviously true: economist doesn't like China's political system, treating it as evil as though it were USSR but the fact is ironically opposite to to economist's expectation.

Kim Jong Un : Hold my Nuclear Bombs

The success of China comes mainly from the following: 1. The stable political environment, no internal struggle too much, you can concentrate on to do some things, such as China's high iron and so on, you are still in debate, they have been built in OK,the 2, larger population size. 3, the hard work of people.4.A Greate present!

Mr president congratulations on becoming world superpower... I sincerely hope china will be just super power compared to what previous super power countries done too this world... Love from 🇵🇰

The most cowered person in the world so much so he banned Winnie the Pooh

I guess the economist couldn't resist to insert its propaganda at the end.

Well done China President Xi💪💪👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👏👏👏❤❤❤💯💯💯

Thank u mr xinjinping

I feel happy and safe when I was living china

习是个有野心的人，民族主义情节严重，但是他的权力已经大到无可撼动了……

the word "one-man rule" is funny, it is impossible at first.

China would be firts world economy & first mega giga super power in whole world!!! Love and respect for mr Xi Jinping gratest president of China in last 200 years, Serbia love China and we like their culture and food after all Chinese are awsome people they are very inteligent and it's obvius why will they became leader No1 in whole world! 🇷🇸❤️🇨🇳

China 🇨🇳🙏🏽

The boss, the leader

UPDATE, 20171028 Sat - USA Q3 GDP growth adjusted to 3% [not PPP] - PRC's GDP growth have been around 6% for the past few years. Last yr, USA's GDP growth was 2% ... and that wasn't using the PPP yardstick. If one used the PPP yardstick then PRC would have passed the USA around 2011.

Lol economists plz study hard Chinese history and then to make such a video like this. In China one person dominance doesn’t necessarily mean bad or good. It’s all depend on the person who rules the country. It’s like Han Wu Di, he control everything over the country but he made the Han dynasty become the most powerful era at the period of history. The most scary thing is president Xi cannot find a successor as smart as like him so his successor cannot control and well managed such a great power.

The world should be optimistic about the prosperity of China instead being afraid of or antagonizing China

I think he rules with kindness and inclusivity… not many people may agree but I think he’s one of the greatest humanitarians

2020: "Xi Jinping is the world's most frightened man."

Another iron fist leader Lee Kuan Yew once said democracy does not bring economic prosperity, prosperity brings democracy.

He likes honey

When people doesnt know who the Rothschild family is...

The concept of power and authority in China and the West ought to be analysed in the eyes of the media practioners who came up with this video. What is thought to be unacceptable in the west might be considered as necessary in China.

I want to praise the Chinese Communist Party because, unlike the supposedly democratic countries, at least it does not lie that it is democratic, for which it deserves praise. :) This part of the world that claims to have democracy violates even freedom of speech, which is not free and unrestricted, as you know it violates Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am a fan of democracy, I don't like totalitarianism, but is authoritarian pseudo-democracy better? Who does not lie that he is a democrat deserves praise, and the others who claim to be democrats are exposed as liars :)

WOW, The Economist, good job! High-level background music! Finally, I find the best music appropriate China under Xi Jinping's rule. Anyone can tell me the name of this music? It's so epic!

another western media again...keep talking does nothing...clap clap clap...

I feel like a 4th grader will ask "why are they explaining this like I'm an idiot?" ..... Is this how they have to explain stuff for us to pay attention now?

Zing ping pong the corona spreader.

one man rule is surely fragile, but it can also be as powerful. Its just a double edge sword, with greater risk comes greater rewards and vice versa.

One of the best leaders of the world 👌

I’m wearing my Winnie the Pooh shirt today. Only thing is the face is Xi Jinping

Most hated man in the world not powerfull.. change the caption.

This is so sensationalist and misleading

That's *our* lord. The most powerful man in the world, is protecting us and it's country.

Ji Xinping was an American graduated student, so he love America very much.

What's the music in this video?

The most psychopath , not the more powerful ...

Conservatively speaking, Xi is one of the most powerful political leaders in the world. U.S. presidents, in recent history, have been the ones on the driver's seat. However, a declining economy, an over-reliance on military prowess and moral decay of recent leaders may push Xi near such a position which he does not seek !

Trump does not even lead his wife

If journalism of this quality was in a written article in The Economist, I would be shocked. It is rife with unqualified assertions ("Mr Xi is the strongest Chinese ruler since Mao", "...his power relies on repression and this kind of power is fragile") and finishes with the ludicrous characterisation of the Chinese government as "one-man rule". As unfree as it may be, it is far from one-man rule: Xi depends on his immense state and party bureaucracy far more than it depends on him.

Xi I s the most honest man

he is the leader of great people 💜