THE GUARDIAN: Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as rebuke to west
Xi Jinping said the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, joined by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in a show of defiance to the west.
Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, were among dozens of world leaders who attended the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
“Today, humanity is again faced with the choice of peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum,” Xi told the crowd of more than 50,000 spectators, adding that the Chinese people “firmly stand on the right side of history”.
He said China was a great nation that “is never intimidated by any bullies” in an apparent veiled reference to the US and its allies and warned that China was “unstoppable”. » | Helen Davidson in Taipei | Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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