Sayings SAYINGS

On October 14, "China San Nong Fabu" released a video of Xi Jinping's 2020 Shenzhen speech, saying "Whether life is good or not, the people have the most say." The comment section received 100,000+ likes, and the comments were almost all praise in the vein of "the people's good chairman."

On October 15, the Qiushi website published Xi Jinping's January speech at the plenary session of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, criticizing some in the Party who are ready to "jump ship" at any time, and demanding that local leadership transitions guard against and purge "two-faced people."

On September 22, CCTV.com published a quick commentary saying that Xi Jinping wants to make farmers' lives happier and better. Netizens sarcastically commented "sounds nice" and demanded that grain prices be raised.

A Wall Street Journal report on October 13 said that China's non-financial sector debt has risen by more than $43 trillion since Xi Jinping took power, and by 2025 it has already exceeded 300% of GDP, with great-power ambitions intensifying the debt spiral.

On October 11, a netizen posted a politics exam paper, in which in the options for question 10, the two characters "Jinping" in "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" were replaced with asterisks, becoming "Xi **".

Kyodo News reports that Chinese participants in a U.S. exchange program have been threatened, harassed and even arrested by Chinese authorities; the U.S. side has suspended recruitment in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao since late July.

The South China Morning Post revealed that when Trump met Xi Jinping in September, he urged the lifting of rare earth export restrictions on Japan and pushed for a Xi-Gao summit. Xi Jinping did not respond actively, and instead warned of the risk of Japanese militarism.

South Gyeonggi Police Agency in South Korea reported on the case in which a Chinese restaurant formerly named "Xi Jinping" was vandalized by 4 Chinese suspects; 3 of them have been issued red notices by Interpol, and the owner, fearing another attack, changed the name and resumed business on September 29.

On October 3, the Wall Street Journal revealed that during Xi Jinping's September visit to the US, the Chinese side asked the White House to arrange a private lounge where only Peng Liyuan could accompany him, and to cancel the working lunch, leaving a gap of about five hours in the summit agenda.

On October 1, Putin said at the Valdai Forum that he and Xi Jinping could understand each other without translation, recalling the details of their private conversation while waiting in India.