Xi Jinping: A Year in the Headlines
China’s leader maintained a commanding lead in the headlines of the CCP’s flagship People’s Daily in 2025, despite a substantial decline over the past year. What do these mixed signals mean?
Xinhua Signs Deal with SPH Media Trust
On July 8, 2025, Xinhua President Fu Hua (傅華) met with Singapore Press Holdings Media’s (SPH Media) CEO Chan Yeng Ying Jie (陳延吉) in Beijing, where both leaders committed to “jointly telling stories of their countries’ development and people-to-people friendship” while enhancing cooperation in news reporting, artificial intelligence, and other technological fields. This meeting was the centerpiece of a four-day delegation visit (July 7-10) led by Chan Yeng Kit, which included meetings with China’s major media organizations, including China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), People’s Daily (人民日報), and Tsinghua University’s journalism school, to discuss shared challenges like disinformation and digital transformation.
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