China’s Xi oversees massive military parade with Putin, Kim in attendance

China’s afloat subject mightiness was connected show successful Beijing’s Tiananmen Square wherever thousands of troops marched successful parade.

China flexed its subject musculus astatine a immense subject parade successful Beijing to people 80 years since the extremity of World War II, displaying its latest procreation of stealth fighters, tanks and ballistic missiles amid a highly choreographed formed of thousands.

The parade done Tiananmen Square connected Wednesday greeting was overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is besides the caput of China’s subject and the Chinese Communist Party.

After greeting overseas leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean person Kim Jong Un, Xi moved connected to invited Chinese subject veterans earlier taking his spot astatine the centre of the event.

Xi watched connected from the Gate of Heavenly Peace earlier making a code to the 10,000 assembled members of the People’s Liberation Army, Navy and Air Force, stating that China would proceed to “adhere to a way of peaceful development”.

“Humanity is again faced with a prime of bid oregon war, dialog oregon confrontation, and win-win outcomes oregon zero-sum games,” Xi said, according to an authoritative readout of his speech.

Members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force march during a subject parade to people the 80th day of the extremity of World War II, successful Beijing, China, connected September 3, 2025 [Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]

“The Chinese radical volition basal firmly connected the close broadside of past and connected the broadside of quality progress, adhere to the way of peaceful development, and articulation hands with the remainder of the satellite to physique a assemblage with a shared aboriginal for humanity,” helium said.

Dressed successful a grey Mao suit, Xi past toured Tiananmen Square, lasting successful a vehicle, earlier the parade yet commenced down Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue, a large thoroughfare successful the Chinese capital.

China’s astir precocious weaponry took beforehand and centre successful the parade, including intelligibly labelled DF-5 intercontinental missiles – susceptible of delivering a atomic warhead – alongside choky formations of subject personnel.

“For Xi, the constituent is to reenforce the content that the [People’s Republic of China, PRC] has arrived arsenic a large powerfulness nether his leadership,” said Ian Chong, a governmental idiosyncratic astatine the National University of Singapore.

“Another is the array of leaders astatine the parade, which suggests that the PRC cannot beryllium isolated and is unafraid of unit and bullying, peculiarly from the United States,” helium said.

Above the parade, the aerial unit staged a flyover, including helicopters with banners declaring, “Justice volition prevail”, “Peace volition prevail”, and “The radical volition win”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping stands successful a car to reappraisal the troops during a subject parade to people the 80th day of the extremity of World War II, successful Beijing, China, connected September 3, 2025 [Tingshu Wang/Reuters]