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Shut Windows and Empty Offices: China's Massive Military Parade Is Closed to the Public
The meeting highlights a potential trilateral military alliance among China, Russia, and North Korea, challenging Western influence amid ongoing global conflicts, analysts say.
- On Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping convened Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing, showing solidarity with countries shunned by the West amid the Ukraine war.
- Following Monday's Tianjin summit, where Xi and Putin pitched a new global security and economic order to more than 20 non-Western leaders, their Beijing meeting precedes a massive military parade on September 3 marking World War Two's end.
- Analysts pointed to troop transfers and energy pacts as North Korea has supplied more than 15,000 troops to support Russia, while Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation signed deals including a 30-year pipeline agreement on Tuesday.
- Observers say the concentration of military power will alter the Asia-Pacific region's military calculus by building on recent defence pacts and will 'ring alarm bells' amid U.S. President Donald Trump's isolationist policies.
- Analysts say the meeting cements what some call an 'Axis of Upheaval', with Iran's leader attending the Sept 3 parade and trilateral exercises near after the June 2024 mutual defence pact.
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The Chinese President welcomed the Russian President and the North Korean leader to Beijing before attending a major military parade.
China's President welcomed the Kremlin chief and North Korea's leaders in front of a military parade in Beijing. The US President accused the three leaders of conspiring against America.
As announced, Chinese leader Xi Jinping was preparing to preside this Wednesday over a vigorous display of military force by parade advanced hypersonic missiles, submarine drones and armored vehicles across downtown Beijing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which in the Asian giant is known as his victory in the “War against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War”.
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