Military parade: China shows with weapons show – XI in the waistband with Putin and Kim

Laser barriers, combat robots, underwater drones – and thousands of soldiers in step: With a powerful military parade, China celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and publicly opened new weapons systems. In the center of the capital, more than 10,000 soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army passed the field of heavenly peace, flanked by hundreds of vehicles and aircraft. State and party leader Xi Jinping took off the parade, together with his guests of honor, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un.

Xi called for peace and warned of new dangers. “Today, humanity is again faced with the election between peace and war, dialogue and confrontation, win-win and zero-sum game,” he said. At the same time, he said that the People’s Liberation Army had to be expanded into a world-class army to secure China’s sovereignty.

Trump holds XI conspiration against the USA

With the gigantic weapon show, Beijing also broadcast a sign of the strength west. A total of 26 heads of state and government were announced, including from Belarus, Iran and Uzbekistan. Many western diplomats stayed away from the parade. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Beijing was the only EU head of government.

In his social network, US President Donald Trump asked whether XI reminded of the support that the United States had given China in the fight against Japanese aggressor 80 years ago. Many Americans died for China’s victory and fame. He hoped that these victims would be honored. “Please host my warmest greetings to Wladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, while you are conspiring to the United States of America,” continued Trump.

The Kremlin immediately gave contra. “I would like to say that nobody was pouring any conspiracies, nobody has concealed anything,” said Juri Uschakow, foreign policy consultant in Putin on Russian state television.

View of new weapons systems

The parade with its 45 formations also revealed new weapons made in China. A mobile laser received a lot of attention that could be used to defend drone swarms, and a torpedo-foating underwater drone and an unmanned patrol boat.

Beijing also showed hyper- and overs sound missiles. Also raised intercontinental missiles from the Chinese arsenal can also wear nuclear warheads and achieve goals in the USA and Europe.

Kim and Putin emphasize friendship

After lunch and the parade, Putin and Kim came together. According to Kremlin, Putin thanked his counterpart for the fact that North Korea’s soldiers fought out of Ukrainian troops in recapturing the West Russian area. According to the translation of the Kremlin, Kim replied that North Korea was always ready to help Russia and see this as a “fraternal obligation”.

Kim, with his heaviest Kim Yo Jong and his daughter, had left one of his rare trips abroad for the parade. For his daughter it was the first officially known trip outside of North Korea. Under observers, the young girl is considered the possible successor to her father.

Putin has been in China since the weekend, where he had demonstratively taken his hands at the Shanghaier Organization for Cooperation with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and advertised with XI for a new world order.

War cost millions of Chinese life

Historically, Beijing took up a dark chapter with the parade, which took place in a similar form ten years ago. Officially, she was entitled to the “End of Japanese Aggression”.

Japan had attacked China in 1937. The war lasted until 1945 and demanded millions of dead in China. At that time, nationalists and communists agreed on a unit front against Japan, but remained suspicious of each other. After the Japanese surrender, the civil war flared up between them.

In 1949 the communists won, Mao Zedong called the People’s Republic of China in Beijing, while the nationalists withdrew to Taiwan. The fact that the People’s Republic did not yet exist in 1945 is still mentioned as a reason to criticize Beijing’s presentation of the war – especially in Taiwan, which is ruled itself, but is used by Beijing as a own territory. Taiwan does not commemorate peace with weapons, but by standing the “fallen heroes” honor and firm to believe in freedom and democracy, President Lai Ching-Te said in the direction of Beijing.

Criticism of history

According to Claus Soong from the Berlin China Institute Merics, Beijing primarily pursues the parade of foreign policy goals. It is “a platform to reinterpret the historical memory of the Second World War”. Beijing wants to show that today it is strong enough to present its own view of history and world order.