{"id":73689,"date":"2025-08-28T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-join-president-xi-chinese-military-parade-defiance-to-west"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:49:05","slug":"putin-and-kim-to-join-xi-at-chinese-military-parade-in-show-of-defiance-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73689","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Kim to join Xi at Chinese military parade in show of defiance to the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Victory Day parade in Beijing on 3 September will mark the formal surrender of Japan during the second world war. No western leaders will attend<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are among the world leaders who will attend a military parade with President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week, in a show of collective defiance amid western pressure.<\/p>\n<p>No western leaders will be among the 26 foreign heads of state and government attending the parade next week \u2013 with the exception of Robert Fico, prime minister of Slovakia, a member of the European Union \u2013 according to the Chinese foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-join-president-xi-chinese-military-parade-defiance-to-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victory Day parade in Beijing on 3 September will mark the formal surrender of Japan during the second world war. No western leaders will attendVladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are among the world leaders who will attend a military parade with Presid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,421,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kim-jong-un","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73689\/revisions\/73690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}