State media shifted from live coverage to canonization after Xi's return to Beijing overnight. People's Daily, Xinhua, CCTV, China Daily and others replayed "Washington time" in micro-documentaries and pictorials, reducing the visit to eight consensus outcomes and slogans about a correct path for major powers and an answer transcending time, with the foreign ministry framing it as progress toward constructive strategic stability.
Outside that closed loop, the scorecard diverged. BBC Chinese and VOA Chinese stressed a tariff truce and AI dialogue against thin substance, noting both statements omitted Taiwan. SCMP asked why chip controls receded and quoted Trump dismissing Taiwan talk as fine for now, while also placing the summit in wider competition from Europe's relief to Greenland, Kenya minerals and Indonesia rail.