Can't Get You Out of My Head

# It was more like a dream than reality

# I must have thought it was a dream

# While you were here with me

# When you were near I didn't think you would leave

# When you were gone, it was too much to believe

# So with tomorrow

# I will borrow

# Another moment of joy and sorrow

# In another dream

# And another with tomorrow

# So with the sun there won't be time just to look behind

# There won't be reasons, no descriptions for my place in mind

# There was so much I was told, it was not real

# So many things that I could not taste

# But I could feel

# So with tomorrow I will borrow

# Another moment of joy and sorrow

# In another dream

# And another

# With tomorrow. #

Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong had been locked away

in solitary confinement for ten years.

Over that time, she had hoarded socks and handkerchiefs

until she had enough to make a rope.

And, in 1991, she hanged herself.

She left a note.

It said, "Today the revolution has been stolen by a clique

"led by Deng Xiaoping.

"The result is that unending evils have been

"unleashed on the Chinese people.

"Chairman, your student and fighter is coming to see you."

Jiang Qing's great enemy, Deng Xiaoping, was now all-powerful.

The new China he had created was growing rapidly,

building vast factories to send goods to the West.

He had got rid of all Jiang Qing's revolutionary dreams,

but he had also smashed all visions of democracy,

by sending troops into Tiananmen Square.

But Tiananmen Square had been a disaster for the regime.

And it also raised a terrible question.

If China no longer believed in revolutionary communism

or in democracy, what did it believe in...

..apart from money?

Deng Xiaoping's solution was to go back into the past

and reawaken an old, powerful fear.

That what had happened in Tiananmen Square had really been

part of a giant conspiracy by the West to destroy China.

It was a conspiracy, he said, that had been going on for 150 years.

It had begun back in the 19th century

when the British had invaded China

and forced opium onto the Chinese people.

Deng now ordered a vast propaganda campaign to begin.

Its aim was to spread the idea of a conspiracy.

At the centre of the campaign was a multimillion dollar film,

including British actors.

It told the story of how the British had brought

hundreds of tonnes of opium into the Port of Canton...

..and how the Chinese had tried to stop them.

But the British, led by Queen Victoria,

were determined to smash their resistance

and use the opium to reduce the Chinese people to zombies

and so control the whole world.

Fire!

The Chinese propaganda even created an early computer game,

where you could fight against the British as they invaded.

Now, the campaign said, the West were trying to do the same again.

What the Chinese were alleging in their campaign

was historically accurate.

But what they didn't know was that the opium trade had also had

powerful consequences inside Britain itself.

It had started to undermine the self-confidence

of the British Empire...

..and introduce a dark and corrosive fear

into the heart of British society.

By the middle of the 19th century, those who ran Britain were

already aware of the horrors created by the slave trade.

For 200 years, the British had transported millions of Africans

to become slaves in their colonies in the Caribbean

and in the Americas.

It had been one of the main forces behind the rise

of the British Empire.

Now they began to realise that they had also done something

terrible to China.

That by forcing opium onto the country,

they had poisoned and corrupted millions of people.

They hadn't enslaved them physically,

they had enslaved their minds.

And, in return, Britain had received a vast wave of money - in silver -

that made it the richest and most powerful country in the world.

One historian wrote...

"Deeply involved as it was in one of the most pernicious,

"yet well-organised and profitable drug trades that has ever

"existed, the British Empire was rotten at its heart."

And that knowledge led to guilt.

In the 1870s, a mass movement was formed.

It was called the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.

It published pamphlets and books about the horrors

that were happening in China.

They caused a sensation and hundreds of thousands joined the movement.

But as the campaign grew, a strange thing happened -

the guilt over what Britain had done to China began to mutate.

It changed into fear.

And at the end of the 19th century, a hysteria swept Britain -

that the Chinese were preparing to take their revenge.

There was a panic about Chinese-run opium dens in all the major cities.

The truth was that there were less than 1,000 Chinese in Britain

at that time, but the hysteria ran out of control.

It was called the Yellow Peril.

The panic also spread through America,

especially the west coast where there were Chinese migrant workers.

Novel after novel was published in both Britain and America,

with Chinese villains who were trying to destroy

Western civilisation.

It culminated with the invention of a global villain -

Dr Fu Manchu.

Fu Manchu is described by his creator,

a novelist called Sax Rohmer, as a yellow Satan,

an archangel of evil who wants to take over the whole world

and revenge himself on the white race.

The injection of the serum will make his brain mine.

In other words, he becomes a reflection of my will.

He will do as I command, exactly as though I were doing it.

In the name of the British government,

I demand the release of this boy. British government?

I'll wipe them and the whole accursed white race

off the face of the Earth when I get the sword and mask that will call

the teeming millions of Asia to the uprising.

This is only the beginning.

I will wipe out your whole accursed white race.

# C'est toi et seulement toi

# Qui ne voulais plus de moi

# Maintenant c'est trop tard pour pleure

# Sans doute t'imaginais

# Que j'allais rester enfermee

# Au carmel pendant dix annees mais tu t'es trompe

# C'est a l'amour comme a la guerre

# Tu l'as voulu et tu me perds

# Va faire soigner tes blessures ailleurs

# C'est a l'amour comme a la guerre

# Tu l'as voulu et tu me perds

# Et moi je ne suis ni la Croix rouge

# Ni ta mere

# C'est toi et seulement toi

# Qui t'ennuyais avec moi

# Qui connaissais toutes mes histoires

# Par coeur... #

In the early 1990s, the Western democracies seemed to be the future.

The collapse of the Soviet Union meant that their ideas

were now going to spread all across the world.

# C'est a l'amour comme a la guerre

# Tu l'as voulu et tu me perds

# Va faire soigner tes blessures ailleurs. #

But at home, in both Britain and America,

there were still forces deep in the heart of both societies that

had little to do with democracy.

Man with a gun.

12 Georgia 30, I need additional units,

6-7 and Dacre, I've got a 4-50 male with a gun...

It seemed that despite all the changes of the past 30 years,

that underneath,

the old structures of power and the corruption

and the anger that created was still there.

In Los Angeles in March 1991, Rodney King was chased

and stopped by police for drunken driving.

Despite offering no resistance, he was beaten repeatedly

by four officers.

It was videoed by a man watching from a balcony.

He took it to the police, but no-one was interested.

So he gave the tape to a local TV station.

When it was shown, there was an outburst of anger

against the police violence.

Four of the officers were put on trial.

But they were all acquitted by an overwhelmingly white jury.

Due to the escalation of the situation,

and seriousness of the problems that are occurring,

the sheriff has mobilised all department personnel.

For six days, thousands of people rose up

and rioted across Los Angeles.

It was only stopped when the National Guard and soldiers

and Marines were brought onto the streets.

It was an outpouring of the anger that had been simmering

throughout the 1980s in the black community.

But despite all the reforms and the changes in attitudes

since the 1960s, nothing had really changed.

It seemed that those in power in America were still deeply racist,

and would use violence against blacks in America

to maintain that power.

All of it needs to stop but I'm going to tell you...

Get down on our knees and pray to God...

One at a time.

That the violence... Let me talk.

I know that the government, whatever, can't stand

us black people.

He's doing everything in the world to make black man be extinct.

But I'm going to tell you one thing, us black people

are going to survive.

And that's wrong about the black people tearing up the, you know,

burning down buildings, that's wrong.

But still, through it all, we're going to survive.

So fuck everybody, I'm off.

All right, that's just an example of the frustration