State media opened in full synchronization around Xi's call to Chinese at home and abroad, paired with continued notices for his poverty-reduction volume, then replaced it in unison in the afternoon with his dictum that without a strong army there can be no strong motherland.
Outside that choreography, coverage of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang intensified from an admitted affair to a national-security liability, with comparisons to the spy-balloon episode, claims of FBI scrutiny and lawsuits, honey-trap framing, and questions over his exclusion from the APEC CEO delegation.
In parallel, U.S.-China diplomacy moved toward an expected Trump-Xi meeting, with calls to honor trade commitments, Bessent's de-risk-not-decouple line answered by red-lines warnings and a no-interference message on Taiwan, alongside efforts to set an AI-nuclear agenda with Russia.