During this time of trouble, the restive populace is sure to be calmed by this new publication highlighting Xi Jinping's penetrating insights into high-level science Yet another publication by the world's greatest freelance writer:
Xi Jinping Thought on Strong Military

Why read it once when you can read it three times?

Patrick Chovanec, a consultant at Silvercrest Asset Mgmt has done some China virtue-signaling by compiling photos about the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations, an event he evidently knows little about.
(a thread) To do this, he compiled over a dozen of my photos on his blog , and when I brought this to his attention, he made no effort to credit the photos or reveal where he got them from. patrickchovanec.com/about/

Confucius, take a hike. Lao-Tzu get lost. Bye-bye to Li Bai. Xi Jinping's latest tome has arrived in this world! Be among the first social influencers to be influenced y this great tome.

A political bible with quasi-religious overtones is unveiled like a holy relic.
A book by Xi Jinping! In English! CCTV news shows the entire table of contents
Wow. It sure looks like a gripping read. Find a comfy chair, put the kettle on and settle for a long enlightening read.

CCTV FOLLIES: 5.26
China state TV doubles down on dubious Russia claims about "secret" US bio-labs in Ukraine.
(from May 26 Xinwen Lianbo) Anchor Li Zimeng couches the accusations in the language of Russia's Defense Ministry, but the CCTV editors like the story enough for it to get major airtime.

CCTV FOLLIES 4.1 The April Fools news is real

Read all about it! Top of the news! Yet another much-heralded publication by the indefatigable freelance writer Xi Jinping, whose excessive narcissism is nicely balanced with pictures of himself. Up next, a nostalgic look back to 2017 when this man was laying the foundation of today's greatness.

CCTV FOLLIES 3.31 Bottom of the news
-Trump is indicted by NY District Attorney's office
-His supporters mobilize
-China's domestic news consists of half hour of talking heads and scribes in meetings
-Xi Jinping front and center, Li Qiang on the side
-Russia dusts off ICBMs New York DA office indicts Trump.

CCTV FOLLIES 3.30 Li Qiang at the helm?
Xi Jinping goes AWOL
-Is Xi resting, or just sick of being on TV?
-Special bonus file footage of Xi in 2021
-China has an environment
-Nord Stream is suspicious
-US helicopter crash
-UK is strike-ridden (nothing on unrest in France) Li Qiang presides over Boao Forum. He looks and acts like a leader (but he's only number two, which is way, way below number one)

News in China, like an advertising campaign, involves a good deal of coordinated messaging.
Here a Belfast-based diplomat echoes the Global Times to show that China is more CEO-friendly than the supposedly capitalist US. A Leninist party with steely discipline and a single correct line makes this kind of mutually supportive messaging easy, even if its a pro-capitalist line.

Tibet has never been happier!

"From serfdom to freedom -- Tibet's progress on democracy, human rights" "Tibet celebrates the 64th anniversary of the freeing of a million serfs"

Today the good news from China is especially good
Let one hundred selfies bloom!
Thinking pink!
We owe it all to the one! "China is an outdoor paradise"
(the expression has been laboriously carved into the fields as a gentle reminder of its truth)

On March 27, Mao Ning is said to have gently rebuked Putin for plans to send nukes to Belarus in contravention to Beijing's long-standing non-proliferation policy. Yet on March 26, CCTV covered the Belarus news without a blink or even a hint of disagreement. The editors even found file footage of nuclear bombs and rockets to drive home the point, and footage from a Putin interview.

CCTV FOLLIES 3.27
The state of the world outside the motherland is stark. Our close and trusted friend Russia continues to patiently ameliorate a border dispute with the disputatious rump state of Ukraine

CCTV's coverage shows its true colors.

Disaster strikes the US?
Check.
(Today's most extensively reported news story was the wreckage left by a tornado in the US south) Putin's murderous rampage and bombing of Ukraine?
Check.
(Russia's "special military operation" gets glowing, adulatory coverage every day of the week)

CCTV FOLLIES 3.26 Putin summit bears bitter fruit
Xi Jinping's "peace" mission to Moscow has emboldened the man he embraced to make the world a more dangerous place.
(a thread) Putin has announced he is sending tactical nuclear missiles to Belarus

In world news today, an important conceptual breakthrough was made at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Human rights with Chinese characteristics...

CCTV FOLLIES 3.25 Xi teaches the world to sing!

A slow news day: Xi only appears in ten shots,
-But what a wallop he packs!
-Xi extends the light of Chinese culture to the world
-Other countries have cultures, too
-China helps them save their own cultures
-It's so win-win! This global leader who needs no introduction
expounds on his grand vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity!

(Yes, humanity, you are included!)

CCTV FOLLIES 3.24 Personality cult (part two)
-Today's cold open starts in Moscow, but as ever, the first three syllables uttered, and uttered in the most unguent and urgent way are: (extended drumroll)
...XI JIN PING! Xi Jinping is transforming Russia through his Belt and Road Initiative. And not just Russia, but the world "will follow Xi's example to achieve peaceful development, use philosophy to harmonize all nations, and achieve the building of great world community."

CCTV FOLLIES 3.23 Xi's gift to humanity is himself

-Fasten your seat belt--CCTV's gone into personality cult overdrive.
-Bests hits from Xi's victorious visit to Moscow (repeat footage)
-Xi is our planetary guide
-Anti-US alliance sings praise of Xi-Putin summit
-Nord Stream In the segment that follows, the images are taken directly from CCTV's homage to Xi, but the audio has been ad-libbed a bit:

China is on the rise...the US is on the run

CCTV FOLLIES 3.22 Xi arrives, shakes and leaves

Xi Jinping/Putin Thought:

The two sides expressed serious concerns about the biological military activities of the United States that seriously threaten other countries and damage the security of relevant regions inside and outside the country, and... demanded that the United States clarify this, refrain from carrying out any biological activities that violate the "Biological Weapons Convention", and stop obstructing the establishment of the framework of the Convention Internal compliance verification mechanism.