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How the Chinese are viewing the meeting between Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un

Closer coordination between Beijing and Pyongyang is described as contributing to a recalibration of regional strategic balance, particularly due to US and Japanese influence.

In 30 hours, Chinese President Xi Jinping participated in 11 events in North Korea” was a repeated description of Xi’s visit to Pyongyang on 8 June and 9 June across the Chinese internet. Official and state media accounts laid out the itinerary in detailed and celebratory terms, tracing the visit from a grand welcoming ceremony at the airport to a China-DPRK Friendship Tower visit and a formal farewell on departure. North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s close personal attention to the visit was constantly highlighted.

Across state media coverage, the visit is rendered as a carefully structured sequence of diplomatic rituals. Military bands, cavalry units, and coordinated receptions are presented as elements of an orchestrated display of bilateral friendship, while mass participation in Pyongyang is foregrounded as part of the ceremonial landscape. Particular emphasis is placed on visual imagery, especially children in festive dress waving flags, which has circulated widely across Chinese state-affiliated media platforms.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between China and North Korea. Against this backdrop, Chinese discourse places strong emphasis on continuity. As Tang Xiao, an expert from the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the China Institute of International Studies, notes, the visit is framed as a reaffirmation of a long-standing friendship forged in past struggles and sustained across generations. This........

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