The South China Morning Post (October 26) noted that a report by Xinhua while doubling
down on the importance of responding to Xi Jinping’s call on the spirit of struggle and bracing
for an increasingly hostile external environment, for the first time, referred to Xi Jinping as
“leader of the new journey”.
It recalled that Xi Jinping is already explicitly referred to as “People’s Leader Xi Jinping” on
state media websites, including Xinhua, People’s Daily and CCTV and that at a press
conference during last week’s Party Congress, Tian Peiyan, the Deputy Director of the CCP's
top think tank the Central Policy Research Office, described Xi as “the outstanding figure of
this great era and the people’s leader of all expectations”
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