https://www.theonion.com/pentagon-accuses-china-of-being-chinese-1850912833
Guys have you heard? Xi Jinping is secretly a member of the Chinese Communist Party! He may even be an agent of China itself!
I was almost certain that the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party was a liberal
I remember back when Xi first assumed leadership that there were Westoid articles about how he was secretly a liberal reformer. I think one even called him "China's Gorbachev".
Then the CIA classified cables got leaked to media and they had a oh fk moment when he was described as a "redder than red" true believer not vulnerable to corruption. Overnight went to calling him the second coming of Joseph Stalin.
This reminds of when Raul Castro resigned there were a bunch of celebratory liberal puff pieces about how it signaled the end of communism in Cuba. Then they realized the incoming president Diaz-Canel is a Marxist and the liberal rags lost interest