The media’s switchover from using Wade-Giles transliteration to Hanyu Pinyin (specific to Mandarin, and approved by the CCP) was quiet and largely not noticed except by those paying attention.
Time Magazine’s 1979
Man of the Year edition featuring Deng Xiaoping was still using Wade-Giles. (I sometimes refer to the current Chinese dictator as “Hsi Chin-p’ing” too, for nostalgia’s sake.)

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02/28/2022 6:02:25 AM PST by
Olog-hai
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