China’s Viral Eye-Rolling Reporter Incident Reveals a Darker Secret

China’s Viral Eye-Rolling Reporter Incident Reveals a Darker Secret
The eye roll that caught the Chinese internet by storm, as broadcast on China's state television, CCTV. Screenshot
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Caught on state television, a Chinese reporter rolled her eyes during a press conference for the Chinese regime’s very predictable, mostly ceremonial rubber-stamp legislature sessions. She instantly became an internet sensation in China. The incident also inadvertently revealed how the regime handpicks so-called “foreign journalists” to attend its press events, who are actually closely associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
On March 13, a reporter dressed in blue showed her dissatisfaction as another reporter dressed in red next to her spent 45 seconds asking an extremely long, and decidedly softball, question directed at Chinese official, Xiao Yaqing.