A massive military parade on Tiananmen square will show off the latest People’s Liberation Army technology, replete with ZTZ-99A tanks, YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship missiles loaded on the back of camouflage trucks, and J-10 fighters streaming smoke trails in yellow, blue, pink, and indigo. This year’s Victory Day will, for the first time, mark a three-day national holiday - an unexpected surprise, although, as grousers have noted online, everyone will work Sunday to make up for it. But younger Chinese, born into a drastically different country, feel more ambivalent towards such government-sponsored patriotism. 3’s Victory Day, the 70th anniversary of Japan’s official surrender after World War II, which has inspired jingoism in generations who remember their parent’s horror stories of the war. No one stops to solicit his help, but Miao insists he is there to “check there’s no trouble.” He is playing his small part to prepare for Sept. He proudly wears a spiffy blue polo shirt, with a red armband on one sleeve declaring him a neighborhood volunteer. Above him, a red banner hangs from a pole, the characters for “watchpost” fluttering in the dry air. "It was a very touching ceremony," he said.BEIJING - In a hutong alleyway in the Chinese capital of Beijing, a sixty-seven year-old man surnamed Miao sits on a folding chair, watching life walk past.
The ambassador said he wants to pay tribute to the Chinese leader because Xi made time to meet the veterans despite his tight schedule while visiting Moscow. President Xi Jinping viewed the May parade in Moscow, and he met and presented awards to some former Russian soldiers who fought in World War II. Let me say that this is the key objective". We need to try to keep adherence to the truth, to the facts, not just the kind of deliberations and allegations that lie far from what has really happened in history."ĭenisov also said it is a good opportunity to remind people that "war is inappropriate and unacceptable. And in these days, for the young generation, we need to preserve. If you want these, you need to have a well-trained army, and a parade is a group formed to show preparedness. "It's just to demonstrate preparedness for keeping peace, maintaining peace and stability. The exchange of parades between China and Russia serves as a display of joint commitment to maintaining peace, Denisov said. He noted that Katyusha is also popular in China. "When I speak about 'surprise', I mean these kind of things. The ambassador said the Chinese soldiers also impressed him.
The Chinese contingent, after finishing one rehearsal, sang a famous Russian song, Katyusha, in the Russian language while leaving, followed by thunderous applause from Russian residents standing on both sides of the road. "So we are waiting and expecting a kind of surprise," he said.Īs China's military contingent rehearsed for the May parade in Moscow, a short video went viral in China's cyberspace. So the earlier the training process starts, the better for the performance," he said. And everyone understands that it matters. It is a matter of long time preparation - of training. "As everybody acknowledged, they were the best among the foreign participants in the military parade," Denisov said of the PLA. On May 9, the honor guard from the People's Liberation Army took part in the Moscow parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. Mongolian Ambassador to China Tsedenjav Sukhbaatar also confirmed the participation of the Mongolian army. Several countries, including Russia, will "dispatch personnel to participate in and watch the military parade", Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said in late June.
Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov told China Daily on Saturday that a show by Russian soldiers in September in the planned Tian'anmen Square parade will have "a surprise".ĭenisov praised a Chinese honor guard's May show in Moscow's Red Square.īeijing said earlier this year that the Russian army will be welcomed at the September commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of China's victory in World War II and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).Īlthough details of the Russian armed forces that will attend the Beijing parade are still unavailable, the envoy said in an interview that "the Russian unit will march as well as the Chinese did in Moscow in May". Chinese servicemen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Red Square in Moscow, May 7, 2015.
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