The Buzz | Wrong character: Official media typo calls President Xi Jinping the ‘last leader’
China’s state news agency has had to issue a correction after it referred to President Xi Jinping as “China’s last leader”, an apparent copyediting error, BBC reported yesterday.
Xinhua later amended the copy, which had by then been widely reused, and asked outlets to change the reference to “China’s top leader”.
In the end many outlets simply removed Sunday’s article in its entirety.
Such a mishap is extremely rare as references to China’s president are believed to be closely scrutinized, BBC’s correspondent in Beijing argues.
Chinese media is heavily regulated, with government censors often removing content on websites and social media. The two phrases are just one character different, but are pronounced very differently.
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