Published: November 12th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Manoj Kewalramani has to get up early because, besides his job at the Indian think tank Takshashila Institution, he spends two to three hours each day carefully reading the newspaper. On the front page, he always sees: Xi Jinping. Kewalramani reads the People’s Daily, China’s top propaganda newspaper, and has been publishing his assessments and analyses in the Tracking People’s Daily newsletter for three years now.