CCTV FOLLIES 11.5 FROM CHINA TO THE WORLD!

Xi presides over the brilliant fall foliage of Beijing! -Xi's wisdom can be seen in beauty of landscape -CCTV airs Hamas snuff propaganda -Russia's justified special military operation not forgotten!

From China to the World! Today’s evening news is brought to you by hard liquor!

The famous five-grain Wuliangye spirits pair nicely with the good news from China and bad news from the rest of the world.

As for the top story, it’s about the close relationship between Dada Xi and mother nature. Beijing’s beautiful foliage owes so much to his exertions.

The latest book “by” Xi Jinping is out and CCTV wastes precious news minutes flipping through the pages like as if the TV program was also an E-reader.

CCTV opens the Gaza news with soaring casualty figures, up to 11,000 today, which is a joint toll that includes (but does not explain) the 1400 Israelis massacred at the October 7 outset of the conflict. The first few frames are IDF footage of the Israeli military incursion into Gaza including tanks and troops on newly bulldozed roads.

The lion’s share of images today belong to Hamas. CCTV airs Hamas militant footage showing the guerilla style attacks on Israeli tanks and armored vehicles using hand-held anti-tank weapons. The Hamas propagandists use red arrows to pinpoint and bring attention to targeted vehicles before and after destruction.

Arab states call for a ceasefire and Turkey recalls its ambassador to Israel.

Palestinian suffering gets major airtime in China and around the world.

(Xinwen Lianbo has yet to cover the music festival massacre or other Hamas atrocities)

Israeli suffering is not yet ready for prime time on CCTV’s flagship which has never once deviated from the party-line script of Israel as victimizer, Palestine as victim.

Likewise, CCTV has been unwavering in sticking to the unscrupulous party line script on Russia and Ukraine. It’s bombs away over Ukraine again, plus some Kremlin style thinking:

Russia did not invade, it’s not a war, Russia’s legitimate security interests are threatened, Putin is a great statesman, Lavrov a great diplomat, China is a neutral peace maker and it’s all the fault of that Ukrainian leader who Xi refuses to talk to, and NATO is the real enemy, and, by the way, the US keeps adding fuel to the fire by supporting Ukraine because it hates peace.

There are some troubling indications that Russia’s epic Black Sea fleet is being harassed and damaged by Ukraine which is unfortunate because the Black Sea is part of the Belt and Road and China, despite it’s much vaunted bumper harvest, needs to import grain from the area.