The Rise of the Great Powers is a 12-part Chinese documentary television series produced by CCTV.
The documentary "endorses the idea that China should study the experiences of nations and empires it once condemned as aggressors bent on exploitation"[1] and analyses the reasons why the nine nations rose to become great powers, from the Portuguese Empire to American hegemony.
[2] Political leaders, such as former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, were also interviewed.
"[2] It has been dubbed in English and shown on History Channel under the title Rising of Great Powers.
It was quite I would say a bold decision to tell the Chinese people this is the way the European nations, the Russians and Japanese became great.
This Cantonese TVB (Hong Kong) version was about 30% shorter to accommodate Tina Leung (Di Na)'s comments.
Tina Leung's comments contained a fair amount of promotion of herself and her "business" interests in China, at time sounded like she was a spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party.