CCTV FOLLIES 6.23 Xi hides and bides

Slow news day -No Xi except reruns -Is Chairman still sad about being called a dictator? Tractors galore -Li Qiang's "mission civilisatrice" in France -Japan bashed -No US news, again!

Has Xi Jinping been moping in seclusion ever since President Biden unfairly called him a dictator? Regardless, CCTV had to scramble to come up with file footage to make it look like the Chairman is active, doing something in the here and now. It’s a mix of footage from last month and some extended sequences from a year before. Much of this has aired already, but it drives home the point that Xi Jinping likes to be seen as a man of the soil. Not surprisingly, he has written extensively on this topic.