{"id":111007,"date":"2025-09-03T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:45:09","slug":"china-unveils-new-weapons-in-massive-parade-attended-by-vladimir-putin-and-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111007\/","title":{"rendered":"China unveils new weapons in massive parade attended by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un"},"content":{"rendered":"

An enduring image for China – and the worldpublished at 05:52 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

05:52 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Laura Bicker
Reporting from Beijing<\/p>\n

\"InImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

One of the most enduring images of this military parade took place before the first cannon was fired.<\/p>\n

President Xi welcoming North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un with a long handshake, then moving onto greet Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin before all three walked together to watch the parade was sheer political theatre – and it is this meeting, not just the weapons and troops on show that appears to have grabbed the attention of US leader Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

This was the first time all three leaders have been seen in public together, and they really picked their moment. <\/p>\n

What followed was a choreographed spectacle of precision, power and patriotism.<\/p>\n

The choir stood in perfectly even rows, the troops goose stepped past in unison and each strike of the ground echoed through the stands of 50,000 guests in Tiananmen Square. <\/p>\n

Then came the big weapons – a new ICBM, laser weapons and robotic wolves – and the crowd reached for their phones.<\/p>\n

The parade finished on a crowd pleasing fly past before thousands of doves and balloons were released into the skies over the capital. <\/p>\n

This display to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, was not just a look at where China has been, or how far China has come. It showcased where China is going: Xi playing the role of a global leader prepared to stand alongside two of the most sanctioned leaders in the world. <\/p>\n

And at his feet a military which is being built to rival the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An enduring image for China – and the worldpublished at 05:52 British Summer Time 05:52 BST Laura BickerReporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-111007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}