Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin before holding a massive military parade on Wednesday in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the so-called anti-fascist and patriotic war against Japan.
Xi was flanked by such friendly authoritarian leaders as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un during the lavish display of China’s military might, which they viewed from a pavilion overlooking Tiananmen Square.
The series of reports from China on the pomp reminded me of the infamous Greater East Asia Conference hosted by Japan in 1943.
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