China Displays Its Military Strength With Parade On 80th Anniversary Of WWII’s End

Beijing (AP) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping is talking before Military parade II. He said that on Wednesday, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, he should make elections between peace and war and dialogue and conflict today.

Xi started a short address, remembering the victims of the war and asked for the elimination of the roots of war to prevent history from recurring itself.

The parade began after talking to the troops walking in Rhythmic Lockstep, echoing boots on the sidewalk, at the same time for a study by XI, the Central Military Commission of China.

The parade ceremony will have more influence on the global scene, while missiles, modern warrior jets and other military power. Some of the military equipment in the public for the first time.

Before the march began, Xi continued in a black limousine of the classic style of the length of the formations along the Central Chang’an Boulevard of Beijing. In front of him stood up from an openness on a roof with four microphones and greeted them as they passed them and crossed the missiles and military vehicles.

They brought together slogans such as uz We serve people ”.

Before Xi spoke, the ceremony started with a 80 armed artillery salute to mark 80 years since the end of the war, and in 1935 the national anthem, a song composed in the early years of the resistance against the Japanese forces, watched the “Walk of Volunteers”.

Including XI and invited guests Russian President Vladimir Putin And North Korean leader Kim Jong Un To watch the parade, he came to the historical Tiananmen gate before. Xi shook his hands with guests on a red carpet before leaving the stairs to the monitoring platform overlooking Tiananmen Square.

Putin and Kim besieged Xi on the way to the platform. Some of them continued to shake hands with five second World War veterans older than 100 years.

When the parade began, US President Donald Trump said on social media whether the big problem would recognize Xi’s contributions to the war fighting in war.

“When conspiring the United States, please give Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un my hottest respect.”

Xi did not mention America in his words under the name of America, but expressed his gratitude to foreign countries that help China resist Japanese invasion.

It is a way to show how long China is progressing in memory of its anniversary. China was a great front in the war, often ignored in accounts that focused on the struggle against the European and US maritime wars in the Pacific. Before the war, a Japanese invasion and conflict itself killed millions of Chinese people.

The military parade ceremony is also a demonstration of power to increase support for the Communist Party and its leader XI, and a way to describe itself as a global alternative to the American dominant post -war period.

A human sea sat in the square in the square along the large street where the parade will pass. When the choirs sang patriotic songs such as “defense of the Yellow River” and “No New China without Chinese Communist Party”, they shook small red flags.

The ceremony started with a 80 armed artillery salute to mark 80 years since the end of the war, and then followed the national anthem of the “Volunteers”, a song composed in 1935 in the early years of the resistance against the Japanese forces in the country.

In Beijing, Associated Press writers Huizhong Wu and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this report.