{"id":73846,"date":"2025-09-03T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/military-reveals-and-bold-messaging-five-key-takeaways-from-chinas-big-parade"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:04:06","slug":"military-reveals-and-bold-messaging-five-key-takeaways-from-chinas-big-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73846","title":{"rendered":"Military reveals and bold messaging: five key takeaways from China\u2019s big parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highly choreographed display and formidable guest list were designed to send a message to the US and its allies about China\u2019s strength<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/china-military-parade-xi-jinping-appears-with-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un\">has presided over China\u2019s largest-ever military parade<\/a>, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.<\/p>\n<p>The event caps off a big week of diplomacy for China\u2019s leader, coming just days after the Chinese city of Tianjin hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/xi-jinping-putin-china-summit-shanghai\">a major summit for leaders of the global south<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/military-reveals-and-bold-messaging-five-key-takeaways-from-chinas-big-parade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly choreographed display and formidable guest list were designed to send a message to the US and its allies about China\u2019s strengthXi Jinping has presided over China\u2019s largest-ever military parade, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,415,421,40,419,74,818,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-taiwan","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\/73846","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73846\/revisions\/73887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}