You probably have seen the video of Xi and Trudeau talking, if not, here it is. Of all the transcripts of the short video, most seemed to have missed on last comment made by the Chinese Emperor at 46 second: “Very naive”.
The way most people interpreted his talk is like a boss not used to have people contradicting him or even complaining to him. It is also a big change: usually in previous world meetings, Xi was very in control of his emotion and never showed how he felt.
But now, Xi considers himself the Emperor of China and not far from the Emperor of the World. He wants to co-lead the world with the USA, for now. If possible, he will take the sole leadership of the World as soon as you all beg him.
Chinese social media quickly censored anything about this video:
First: Weibo has apparently censored Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s name. Search his name and you’d only see posts from official accounts (Blue V).
Then: And his nickname 小土豆 (little potato) too. So is English word “potato”.
Then: Ruptly, a Russian state media agency, reports on the Xi-Trudeau incident on Weibo. The post got deleted in about five minutes.
Then: “创造条件” (create conditions) is now also a censored keyword on Weibo. Xi said it at the end of his conversation with Trudeau. One of the more recognizable lines in the video.
And lastly: Interestingly, Weibo just released a bunch of posts from Yellow V (verified individuals) in the search result of Trudeau. Almost all of these are about Trudeau deleting a tweet two days ago that falsely claimed that Iran had sentenced 15,000 protesters to death.
You wonder why the Emperor of the Universe does not want his subject to know his major diplomatic victory as a wolf warrior. Must be his modesty.
But his state media reporters on Twitter are praising his achievement:
This is the first time I’ve seen President Xi getting annoyed in public
Justin Trudeau must be sweating in places where he didn’t even know he had sweat glands
COVID is spreading everywhere in China, even Beijing is getting double digit new cases. Guangzhou is in lockdown, even though it has less cases compared to Beijing. Most people think that Beijing will never be in a lockdown, because too many important people live there. So, we have to wait and see.
One video of two young women being bounded with ropes in Guangzhou went viral on Chinese social media. Even the police of Guangzhou had to issue public announcement to “clarify” things. You can see the two minutes video. It is not clear who shot the video and exactly what happened. The police later claimed that the two young women refused to cooperate with the COVID control measure, and they were being investigated for disrupting public safety. Whether those COVID control people have the legal power to restrict the young women is not a question. The public seemed to have accepted this description of the event and sided with the authority (COVID control people and the police).
There are many other stories of young kids having died of normally treatable illness because they could not see doctors in time. People jumped off from their apartment buildings during lockdowns. In one district of Guangzhou, there was a riot against lockdown. Despite these isolated distress and rebels that surfaced on social media, most Chinese are more afraid of COVID than anything else. They are begging the government to impose more lockdowns.