Beijing correspondent
On the thick red carpet of the Great Hall of the People, he walks slowly, a debonair smile, like a Roman emperor at the hour of triumph, to the frenzied applause of the apparatchiks, standing in dark costumes.
Xi Jinping can savor his victory over the
"demon of the virus"
by opening this September 8 in Beijing, this grandiose ceremony to the glory of the
anonymous
"heroes"
of this
"people's war"
against the Covid-19.
He is the main character of this staging orchestrated by propaganda.
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Under the Stalinist golds of the huge columned building, anchored in front of Tiananmen Square, the Chinese president decorated nearly 1,500 doctors, nurses and other shadow fighters, exalting the
“determination”
of the
“Chinese people”
, under
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