Almost all the mainstream Chinese media reported that President Xi Jinping was capable to hold the tray, eat the steamed buns and pay the bills all
by himself in a chain restaurant, last Saturday, Beijing.
This surprise visit was taken as a proof of the common touch between the top leader and the lower public, spreading quickly through the internet. Such interactions are highly unusual for senior Chinese officials, which are more stage-managed by Communist Party's propaganda divisions(some interviews leaked out later did prove that the restaurant had been
cleared somehow in advance that morning).
Well, those Chinese media who sing high praise for Xi Jinping's surprise visit to the lower restaurant may have forgotten that how they satirized that American Vice President Joe Biden's eating noodle in a similar restaurant while visiting China was a pure
show-off:
One can see how
weird (snobbish) the Chinese media are:
Xi Jinping ate steamed buns with ordinary people:
he loves people and
is one of the people.
Biden ate noodle with ordinary people:
he was showing off.
And my response to these media is:
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