CCTV FOLLIES 4.6 Xi Jinping: peace-broker or peace-breaker?

Taiwan gets bad news slot -A thousand words, not a single picture! -Warnings abound -Macron gets top billing with crisp, militaristic welcome at Tiananmen -Xi talks, Macron listens. He takes notes.

The most sober news of the day is saved for last. Taiwan ingrate Tsai Ing-wen has sneakily made a US visit to meet the Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. CCTV does not see it fit to dignify this flagrant and outrageous act with pictures; it answers instead with an angry barrage of words. China’s Foreign Ministry is not only not amused, they’re mad! Exhortations about US-Taiwan perfidy replace the usual bad news slot at end of the Xinwen Lianbo program.