President Xi Jinping has asked China’s bellicose official media and “wolf warrior” diplomats to present the image of a “credible, lovable and respectable China” to the world, in what observers see as a rare admission of Beijing’s growing isolation exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Xi, 67, who carries the image of being the most powerful Chinese leader after ‘Chairman’ Mao Zedong with possible life-long tenure in power, in a candid conversation at a study session for the ruling Communist Party’s top leadership on Monday said that new concepts, domains and expressions should be created to tell China’s stories in a better way. Read More…