Overnight copy on the new positioning of China-US relations gave way by morning to synchronized live coverage of Xi and other leaders laying flower baskets at the Monument to the People's Heroes for Martyrs' Day, a ritual announced two days earlier. By afternoon the same outlets pivoted in lockstep to the reception marking the 77th founding anniversary, carrying Xi's call for firm confidence and steady steps toward rejuvenation.

Outside that closed loop, English-language and overseas outlets tracked the fallout from the Washington summit that state media had dropped: warnings of retaliation if the EU adopts a Section 301 equivalent, US complaints over rare-earth controls and exclusion of US soybeans from tariff cuts, Trump's rejection of joint AI development, and Senate passage of a Falun Gong protection bill.