The East is Red Again

In China, the popular Internet idiom “advanced blackening” has been used to describe a defamatory tactic in which a sentence of praise actually hints at discredit. During the period of the recent Two Sessions, the annual political meetings of the Chinese regime, the phrase has frequently been used to describe how the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda department abnormally discredits Party leader Xi Jinping.

In China, the popular Internet idiom “advanced blackening” has been used to describe a defamatory tactic in which a sentence of praise actually hints at discredit. During the period of the recent Two Sessions, the annual political meetings of the Chinese regime, the phrase has frequently been used to describe how the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda department abnormally discredits Party leader Xi Jinping.