Today's news broadcast reported a bloodbath on Wall Street

"The world is in deep trouble, but the scenery here is uniquely good"—this is the traditional skill of the party-state's propaganda mouthpiece. Many have already forgotten how, during the thirty years of internal turmoil, the party-state portrayed the U.S. 🇺🇸 as being on the brink of collapse. For so many years, CCTV and its cohort of mouthpiece media have been doing the exact same thing.