CCTV FOLLIES 4.16 Under Xi's thumb
China's accomplishments increasingly attributed to just one man -Xi personality cult propaganda getting tone-deaf and heavy-handed -China worries about its investments in Sudan -US on fire as usual.
Food security is frequently touted on TV news as an urgent national priority even though food supply has been sufficient for many years now. The repetitive stories about magnificent yields and improved techniques seems to reflect in part a desire to reach China’s shrinking agricultural base and a concomitant desire to remind non-farm sectors and city dwellers that China is bracing itself for supply chain disruptions due to uncertain times.
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It’s also part and parcel of an increasingly heavy-handed personality cult which attributes China’s remarkable gains to a man most observers would agree to be an unremarkable intellect. Nor is he half as telegenic as his boosters seem to think he is.