The world is once again faced with a “choice between peace and war”, says Chinese President Xi Jinping, overlooking Piazza Tiananmen with his dress at the Mao. “China’s ascent is unstoppable” and “no bully will be able to intimidate us,” he marks. Messages, which in a few minutes follows the last more advanced armaments, among the symbols of the international prestige of the People’s Republic, with the military parade for the 80 years of the end of the Second World War.
The celebrations for the V-Day, on the day of victory, began at 9:00 am, under an already heavy heat. At the strength of the force were the heads of state and government of 26 countries, some of which subjected to heavy western penalties, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Xi welcomed them personally and, with them and with the other guests, he climbed to the Tiananmen gate to attend the parade, then having the Russian leader on his right and the North Korean on his left side. A scenario that sent Donald Trump on a rage.
“The most important question to answer is whether the Chinese president Xi Jinping will mention the huge amount of support and blood that the United States have given to China to help you free from a very hostile foreign invader. Please offer my most cordial greetings to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-a while conspired against the United States”, wrote the US President on Truth. Wonderful Chinese people to live a grandiose and lasting day of celebration ».
And an answer seems almost to give it XI, a few hours later, to the reception in the great Sala del Popolo: “The Chinese government and people will never forget foreign governments and international friends who have supported and helped the Chinese people in resistance to aggression”, noted the leader, looking at each other well from making names. The new narrative is to amplify the role of China and diminish that of others on the merits of the victory in the last world conflict.
Meanwhile, as for the accusations of “conspiracy” of Trump, the councilor for the foreign policy of the Kremlin Iuri Ushakov has replied that “nobody has ever thought about it, none of these three leaders”. But the context is unusual: in addition to Putin and Kim, on Piazza Tiananmen there were the head of the Myanmar military regime, Min Aung Hlaing, together with the Laotian president Thongloun Sisoulith and the Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Then the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian and those of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. An adhesion that reflects the growing diplomatic and economic influence of China in the region.
With the exception of the Indian premier returned home, the participants were almost all those of the SCO of Tianjin, where XI, supported by Putin, proposed to the global south a new system of world governance “fairer and fair” against the “hegemonism” of the West, finding fertile ground for its strategies in the tsunami of Trump duties with allies and rivals. The leaders of Iran, Russia and North Korea.
But in his speech on Piazza Tiananmen, XI has launched another left message: “The armed forces will give strategic support to the great renewal of the Chinese nation and will provide great contributions to world peace and development”, inviting them to accelerate the transformation by global class to protect “national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity”. These are the expressions used for the long -term goals that include Taiwan’s “inevitable” reunification. Therefore, if “China’s great renewal is unstoppable”, the logical conclusion is that the obligation to adapt to “living in harmony and prevent the tragedies of history from repeating”.