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Mar 17 25 tweets 12 min read
CCTV FOLLIES 3.17 Xi-Xi TV News
Top stories are about the top man, but isn't that what being dictator is all about?
Xi evidently likes these Xinwen Lianbo announcers, but only if they're talking about him.
Latest charm offensive:
Xi state visit to Moscow, March 20-22
Another exciting news day. All about Xi.
Praise for Xi, his important remarks, and his successful re-election as Chairman can be heard from serious thinkers in all walks of life.
A round-up of the images that CCTV during the voice-over praise of Xi
(ad-lib format for concision and to convey the gist of it)
Xi is the Great Wall
Xi is the Great Hall
Xi is the big boat
Xi is the river upon which it floats
Xi is the colorfully-costumed child's cry of joy
Xi is the gate, Xi is the bridge
Xi is the sunrise
Xi is the sunset
Xi is the lighthouse
Xi is the navigator
Xi is the red flag
Xi is the rice field
Xi is tractors chugging happily along chopping grain.
Xi is the lab,
Xi is the lab without leaks
Xi is the spark
Xi is the power
Xi is the budding grain
Xi is the field with big characters written on it
Xi is more exports than imports
Xi is undersea oil
Xi is solar power
Xi is a powerful rocket on its way to the moon
Xi is a map in a world without borders, except for China, which uses bold lines to include Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands.
Xi is the belt,
Xi is the road.
Xi is the lock, Xi is the key.
Xi is the solution to the Taiwan "problem"
Seven glorious minutes later, an important update:
"The People's Daily has an important article about Chairman Xi's important remarks."
More good news:
"...and CCTV will run a timely and concise review of Chairman Xi's Global Civilization Initiative which is a progressive injection full of positive energy to the civilization of mankind!"
Li Qiang, the second-most powerful man in China, has a few original thoughts of his own.
"I totally agree with everything that Xi says..."
"The spirit of the Xi's victorious 20th party congress guides me..."
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Mar 18
CCTV FOLLIES 3.18 The world is China's garden
-Global Civilization Initiative glows bright
-Let spring not bloom just in China but the whole world!
(Does anyone remember what happened the last time China let one hundred flowers bloom? ) ImageImageImageImage
The words are all about peace, harmony, and humanity, but the pictures tell the real story.
China is keen to get the economy jump-started so they can get kicking in global trade ImageImageImageImage
Even as CCTV reviews Xi's days-old meeting, it illustrates the theme with trains and empty docks. ImageImageImageImage
Read 27 tweets
Mar 16
New Era Internet! 5G! A white paper for new age.
"We've been watching you..."
(and are getting better at watching you all the time) ImageImageImageImage
New Era education is proudly described as party indoctrination ImageImageImageImage
Red wreaths for green soldiers packed off to training. ImageImage
Read 9 tweets
Mar 16
Important Planetary Address: Xi "R" the World

"We are ready to work together with the international community" --His excellency Xi Jinping
Xi unabashedly hogs the floor in this epic one-way Zoom discussion:

"One hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden...Here, I wish to propose the Global Civilization Initiative!"
Xi on the West:
"China will neither tread the old path of colonization and plunder, nor the crooked path taken by some countries to seek hegemony. The practice of stoking division and confrontation in the name of democracy is in itself a violation of the spirit of democracy."
Read 11 tweets
Mar 15
CCTV FOLLIES 3.15 No-limits propaganda

-Praise for Xi's "important words"
-Xi accolades pour in
-Whole world admires Xi
-Putin's rambling remarks get major face time
-Putin feels victimized by broken pipeline
-It's so unfair!
-US is a terrorist country
-SVB serves US right Image
Unlike most edits, here Putin can be heard speaking in his own voice throughout the voice-over:

"Ridiculous! How can they say it was done by a pro-Ukraine group. This is an act of state terrorism!" ImageImage
"It's obviously an act of state-sponsored terrorism!" ImageImageImageImage
Read 27 tweets
Mar 14
3.14 The "Two Meetings" formalizing Xi's increased dictatorial control have been declared a success!

Nowhere was the ten-day long televised extravaganza of red-carpeted entrances, talking heads and extensive applause watched more closely watched than in military quarters. Image
Military men watched the Xi show with rapt attention, hardly taking time to exhale or inhale. Image
CCTV is proud to "bring the good news" of China's story told well to the fighting forces who defend every last inch of the motherland. Everyone watches it. ImageImageImageImage
Read 29 tweets
Mar 13
CCTV FOLLIES 3.13
What better way to end a ponderous week of meetings than with a meeting to conclude the meeting?
What better way to culminate ten days of democracy* in action than to have the unanimously elected leader impose his vision on the rubber stamp parliament?

*with Chinese characteristics
It's not just the delegates; as CCTV tells it, every last person in every corner of China is thrilled at the democratic results because whatever Xi says actually reflects their deepest inner wishes.
Read 14 tweets

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