The news is all about you-know-who and his conquering of hearts and minds of young and old, peasants and diplomats alike, across the heartland of Europe!
The screenshots below, all from today’s news, basically serve as another brick in the wall of CCTV’s top-heavy, tone-deaf, too-stupid-to-be-believed personality cult of Xi.
The cultish coverage extols the paramount leader witha the usual excess but it may have the unintended effect of further isolating Xi, and his deluded visions of grandeur, not just from the world, but from his own people who by now must be getting pretty jaded at the sight of the emperor who tends to dominate the news cycle day after day.
Aside from a few shots of departing Hungary, most of the footage is reruns of the state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary. I will spare the reader and myself any commentary on CCTV’s massive Xi data dump and let it stand on its own visual merits. (or lack thereof)
Trigger warning: Many, many pictures follow. It’s too big for email but can be viewed in full online. It’s also an informal test of the Substack platform’s capacity for images.
I fully expect regular viewers of the Follies to recognize many of the Xi propaganda tricks and inherent prejudices of CCTV coverage. I personally find it funny the way CCTV always tries to show Xi in control, dominating the room, pointing at things and pointing things out on topics and in foreign environments he knows nothing about. Then the “Triumph of the Will” imagery every time he descends from a jet. And the raving rent-a-mob that greets him with a sea of red flags at every turn, even in Europe.
Enjoy!
Xi Jinping attended the farewell event held by the Prime Minister of Hungary
Xi Jinping concluded his state visit to Hungary and left Budapest by special plane
Xi Jinping returns to Beijing after concluding state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary
Inheriting friendship, promoting unity, and opening up a successful journey in the future—President Xi Jinping’s state visits to France, Serbia, and Hungary in highlights
Xi Jinping gave important instructions on the construction of ideological and political courses in schools, emphasizing that we should continue to create a new situation for ideological and political education in the new era and strive to cultivate more new people of the era who can reassure the party, patriotism, dedication and shoulder the important task of national rejuvenation. Ding Xuexiang attended the promotion meeting for the construction of ideological and political courses in schools in the new era
Inheriting friendship, promoting unity, and opening up a successful journey in the future—President Xi Jinping’s state visits to France, Serbia, and Hungary in highlights
After a lengthy, jumbled, roundabout reflection on Xi’s great Odyssey, it’s time for domestic news, mostly about how Xi and how Xi’s visions are being put into practice by his slavish subordinates.
