CCTV FOLLIES 2.3 No news on that balloon

-No sign of Xi in domestic news segment -Too busy prepping for Blinken meeting? oh, snap! -Flowers blossom across China -Russia gets big airtime today -Putin, Lavrov strut their stuff -US is bad

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Everything's good in China, lots of iconic scenic shots, no hard news today.

The way CCTV frames it, Russia fought against the bad guys once before and is doing so again. The socialist motherland is fighting the good fight in self-defense "from the Western threat."

Bonus: Propaganda lesson from today’s domestic news