Thread by @jinpeili

CCTV FOLLIES 1.04 A Spectre is haunting Europe...

Aside from the usual Xi protocol shots (first ten minutes) the biggest story of the day is UK labor strike
-Marcos Jr. gets gala Great Hall audience with Him
-Talking heads talk
-Strike-crippled UK wrongly supports Ukraine

Bongbong gets the red carpet treatment

Gun salute on T square, more red carpet, red flags and red hospitality

Soldiers show their bayonets and other stuff.
Nice goosesteps, very well coordinated.

Grand meeting hall, model Great Wall with fake snow, real Great Hall with lights, road to Beijing Hotel

Li Keqiang tries to get the economy back on track while his boss, the capo di tutti capi attends yet another banquet.

Tedious meetings held in Beijing now require compulsory remote attendance in the provinces via Zoom-ins.

Good economic policy protects the people
Pretty colors also help.
Giant slogans written on fields are especially efficacious

In response to general concerns about health concerns, the CCP shows how pharmacists and doctors bring service to the people. House visits are now a standard feature in rural areas.
Medical personal, inspired by the spirit of the 20th, heed the call.

The star of the Xian Film festival is yet another film about decimating Americans in wartime.
"The Battle at Lake Changjin II" promises to be a hit.
And now in world news...

It's business as usual for Russia in Ukraine, blasting away. CCTV suggests the "precision" strikes only hit "foreign mercenaries" and "US-made weapons depots" but the pictures tell a slightly more reckless story.

How's that for precision shooting?

How's this for a precision map?

A few days late (after presumably awaiting clearance from Putin because this stirred up a storm in Russia) CCTV reports that on New Year's eve "89 Russian troops in a temporary shelter" in Donetsk were killed by Ukrainian shelling.

CCTV quickly cuts to the "real" cause of the conflict.
But today, instead of blaming the US or NATO, they focus their indignant rage on UK for supplying weapons to Ukraine.

Of course, the UK functions as a mere proxy of the US, so at the end of this tedious segment of recycled stock footage of trucks loading and unloading, due blame is shifted to the US for...
Fanning the flames.

Capitalist UK is increasingly being crippled by strikes due to labor unrest.

It's as if the spectre of communism, or perhaps, given the worldwide acclaim for Chairman Xi, one should say, "the spirit of the 20th," has infected the thinking of the toiling classes.

To riff on Marx, who dreamed up some of this stuff in England, "society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat"
(Not in China, though. It has Chinese characteristics)

Britons suffer energy shortages, high prices and other inconveniences due to their blind following of US-led sanctions on Russia. If only they watched more CCTV they would know the US fans the flames and ruins the world economy with its hatred for Russia.

Enough is enough!

CCTV is doing the proletariat a favor covering strikes and demonstrations in lands far away from China, not that is has the time or energy to take note of any such unrest at home, if such unrest could be said to exist

China, a socialist society in the new era.

But CCTV can't really get through a program without confirming Chairman Xi's stubborn hope and bedrock belief that it's the US that is totally falling apart.
CCTV suggests 90 percent of Americans share Xi's pessimism about their country.

And thus concludes the day's news...

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