State media moved from preview commentaries to the event itself, carrying live reports, exclusive video and full text of Xi Jinping's speech at Beijing's gathering marking the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, centered on calls to carry forward the spirit and create new glory on the new march ahead of the party plenum.
Outside the lockstep, commercial outlets tracked positioning before a possible Trump-Xi meeting, from Manila signaling Quad and Squad talks to German remarks against a trade war despite the EU instrument and forecasts of rebounding Gulf oil imports.
Technology coverage focused on self-reliance claims, with reports of Huawei and DeepSeek narrowing Nvidia's AI ecosystem lead, a 100-channel quantum detector and new brain-computer interface standards.