A supposed TOTALITARIAN DICTATOR GETS A REPRIMAND? LOL
I am continually baffled at how literal fanfiction has increasingly krept into western coverage of high level party politics. It's embarrassing. If you're going to brazenly make shit up at least have it be interesting.
The CIA has basically admitted multiple times that they no longer have any idea what goes on at the Politburo level and above. Yet I am supposed to believe that some journalist contact has a direct line into Xi's personal happenings? I know this is ranty but it's just something I've noticed get steadily worse for a long time, and the sheer presumptuousness just makes me mad.