{"id":73763,"date":"2025-09-01T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/china-victory-day-military-parade-putin-kim-jong-axis-of-upheaval"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:22:42","slug":"chinas-victory-day-military-parade-why-are-putin-and-kim-jong-un-there-and-what-is-the-axis-of-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73763","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Victory day military parade: why are Putin and Kim Jong-un there, and what is the \u2018axis of upheaval\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gathering in Beijing will include the leaders of Russia and North Korea, along with the Iranian president, a grouping dubbed the axis of upheaval<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, China is holding a military parade in the capital, Beijing, to mark 80 years since the end of the second world war. But it\u2019s not just about the past, the parade says a lot about the forces reshaping the world today, and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>At the parade, Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be flanked by the leaders of some of the world\u2019s most heavily sanctioned nations \u2013 Russia, North Korea, Iran and Myanmar \u2013 and a host of other leaders of the global south but notably almost no western leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/china-victory-day-military-parade-putin-kim-jong-axis-of-upheaval\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gathering in Beijing will include the leaders of Russia and North Korea, along with the Iranian president, a grouping dubbed the axis of upheavalOn Wednesday, China is holding a military parade in the capital, Beijing, to mark 80 years since the en&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,448,421,40,419,818,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-iran","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-vladimir-putin","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\/73763","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73763\/revisions\/73780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}