State media spent the second National Day holiday rotating identical canonization copy: morning 'Linghang' landscape review under Xi, midday 'people's leader sowing patriotic seeds,' afternoon 'confident march' and 'action as pen' September record, all anchored to his 77th-anniversary reception call, with English titles recasting it as global praise.
Outside that loop, post-Washington fallout resurfaced around Taiwan's receipt of first two US F-16Vs, presented as test of US support after the Xi-Trump summit, alongside Trump's claim of raising detained Americans and Senate passage of a Falun Gong protection bill.
Holiday economy and tech friction filled the remainder: targeted fiscal support to defend growth, Golden Week outbound shift to Europe and South America, record EV charging demand, and warnings of further C919 delays and US calls for total ASML ban after Chinese DUV buying spree.