CCTV FOLLIES 3.10 Clap4Xi-23 epidemic rages

-A contagion of involuntary clapping grips Beijing -Viral origins being traced -Great Hall ground zero? -Outbreaks in outback -Russia, NK, Serbia all pledge help -PLA thrilled to be in thrall of Xi.

A viral outbreak known as Clap4Xi-23 has stricken vast portions of China

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(today’s Xinwen Lianbo ran overtime due to a highly-scripted political farce, so I chose to mad-lib it rather than translate captions in the news summary contained in the thread above)

Election with Chinese characteristics. Broken voting machine?

To think all of this hardware is subject to the whims of one unelected man. He got all the votes in a rigged ritual which is as good as saying he's an unelected leader.

Military men swear they're thrilled to be in the thrall of Chairman Xi.