But the Southern Media Group is not the People's Daily, and the differences are worth acknowledging.

Call it a public humiliation for Beijing, because, after issuing the People's Daily piece, there will be no other way to interpret the presence of an American fleet in the Yellow Sea.

Even the Bejing People's Daily had the effrontery to adopt this terminology.

In the past 62 years, 601 foreigners were crowned with “old friends of the Chinese people” in People's Daily, the official organ of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The People's Daily editorialized,“…”