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The Eye Roll That Upstaged Xi Jinping

At China's parliament session, Xi was given permission to rule indefinitely. But when a journalist rolled her eyes at another reporter's question, her expression was caught on camera and went viral.
A screenshot of Liang Xiangyi, a financial news reporter, who was so disgusted by a fellow reporter's softball question to a government official at this week's National People's Congress that she was caught on live television rolling her eyes. The moment went viral.

In what will go down as one of the most significant legislative sessions in modern Chinese history, an eye-rolling millennial managed to steal the show from President Xi Jinping, a man who had

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