{"id":49783,"date":"2025-09-06T09:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=49783"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:33:49","slug":"xi-jinping-asks-the-world-to-choose-war-or-peace-which-direction-is-china-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=49783","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping asks the world to choose \u2018war or peace.\u2019 Which direction is China headed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN:   \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The optics could not have been more stark as Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived at a massive military parade in Beijing flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u2013 with some two dozen other leaders including from Iran, Pakistan, Belarus and Myanmar trailing behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jumbotrons at Tiananmen Square beamed the image to the 50,000 people gathered under the beating Beijing sun to witness the spectacle, many waving small Chinese flags, while state media transmitted it to televisions across China and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many watching in capitals across the West, including Donald Trump, thought the messaging was clear: China is deliberately provoking the US and its partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlease give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America,\u201d the US president wrote to Xi on social media as legions of troops goose-stepped their way through central Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone who heard the echoing shouts of the thousands of well-drilled troops and saw the hulking nuclear-capable missiles, underwater drones and warplanes gliding down Beijing\u2019s Avenue of Eternal Peace, there\u2019s no question that Xi was orchestrating his most forceful showing yet of China as an alternative global leader \u2013 with both military might and geopolitical heft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2233477553.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_860,c_fill\" alt=\"Planes perform a flyover during a military parade in Tiananmen Square on September 3.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Planes perform a flyover during a military parade in Tiananmen Square on September 3.&nbsp;Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has long touted its \u201cpeaceful\u201d rise and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/eng.\/xw\/fyrbt\/lxjzh\/202405\/t20240530_11347471.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decried<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cwarmongering\u201d US. But the parade, commemorating the end of World War II, was undoubtedly intended to telegraph the rapid advancement of the world\u2019s largest military, and signal Xi\u2019s growing ability to project hard power on the world stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A live mic that picked up Xi and Putin discussing how people may soon live to 150 through medical advances hinted at the durability both see for their own positions driving a global transition of power, as perhaps did Kim\u2019s decision to bring his daughter and potential successor with him on his green train to Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind the carefully choreographed pomp was a key message \u2013 that Xi aims for a world where the US and the West don\u2019t get to set the rules \u2013 and a question: what does that mean for the US and the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: \u00a0 The optics could not have been more stark as Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived at a massive military parade in Beijing flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u2013 with some two dozen other leaders including from Iran, Pakistan, Belarus and Myanmar trailing behind. Jumbotrons at Tiananmen Square beamed the image to the 50,000 people gathered under the beating Beijing sun to witness the spectacle, many waving small Chinese flags, while state media transmitted it to televisions across China and the world. 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