2026.5.14(2) The West saw red carpet, handshakes, flowers, and banquet protocol. But Communist China staged political warfare in plain sight. Every camera, pause, route, and escort served Xi’s curated message: China rises, America descends.
In 1982, Beijing turned Thatcher’s stumble outside the Great Hall into propaganda: the British Empire visibly waning, Hong Kong’s return as Heaven’s will. Four decades later, cameras waited for Trump. He did not fall, but the CCP got its image: America going down, Beijing standing above.
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