02.09.2016 - 06:06 [ BBC ]

Hangzhou G20: China‘s ambitions for global leadership

Filled with brand new security kit and locked down manhole covers, it has been emptied of a third of its population.

The switch was flicked to off in factories for hundreds of miles around, the pollution haze dispersed and the sky turned ‚G20 blue‘.

This weekend‘s G20 is a demonstration that the one party state decides on a goal, it can call the country to attention and command its people to get behind it.