Using the Trump administration’s announcement of tariffs against China as a hook, the CBS Evening News ran one of the weirder items in recent memory. After watching this story on the National People’s Congress, reasonable individuals are left to wonder whether the network should eventually change its name to XiBS.
Look at the video package submitted by correspondent Anna Coren (click “expand” for transcript):
ANNA COREN: A show of strength outside the Great Hall of the People, as soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army marched across Tiananmen Square adorned with flags. They are part of the almost 3,000 delegates who arrived in Beijing for the opening of the National People’s Congress, China’s most important political event of the year.
CHINESE SOLDIER: Thank you, thank you.
COREN: But hanging over this highly scripted and choreographed event, the escalating…
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