"The Stories China Tells" Topic

"On September 3, 2015, a procession of Chinese missile launchers and more than 12,000 soldiers paraded through Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Some 850,000 civilians were deployed to patrol Beijing; in parts of the city, business, traffic, and all wireless communications were shut down. But lest anyone get the wrong impression, President Xi Jinping delivered an address meant to assuage those alarmed by all the firepower and manpower on display. "No matter how much stronger it may become, China will never seek hegemony or expansion," he assured his audience, which included a few dozen world leaders.

In fact, Xi argued, China had played an important part in defeating fascism in the twentieth century, and China was now helping maintain the international order in the twenty-first. Employing the terms that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses to describe World War II, Xi hailed China's commitment to "uphold the outcomes of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Antifascist War" and called on all countries to respect "the international order and system underpinned by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, build a new type of international relations featuring win-win cooperation, and advance the noble cause of global peace and development."

Under Xi, the CCP has tried to project an image of seeking peace through strength, neither picking fights nor shying away from confrontation. In recent years, however, China's increasingly assertive and often abrasive conduct has undercut its attempt to claim international leadership. Xi's appeals to the past represent one way to offset this inherent tension…"

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Armand

Under any rules, four hours or not, this belongs in the Directory Forum. To then disappear effectively. We all know that.

Never mind how we feel about Mainland China, which is currently, temporarily since 1948, under a Communist regime. This posting is political, it prompted no discussion (Oh heck maybe this counts, but I hope not)

The new rules say this should go to that strange lost board where it will never be seen again. I recently rated you as 80% genius and 20% crap …..this one. Naw