Feature report from South China Morning Post on Sept 3, 2025 (re-produced here in The Multiplural World, Sept 5, 2025, with related news and analysis further below)
On September 3, 2025, China hosted ‘Victory Day 80’, a massive military parade along Changan Avenue in central Beijing, showcasing the country’s latest and most advanced weapons to commemorate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japanese imperialism and military-fascism in World War II.
President Xi Jinping delivered a speech from the rostrum on Tiananmen Gate (Gate of Heavenly Peace) and then inspected the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops from a parade car along Changan Avenue. This was the third major military parade across Tiananmen Square overseen by Xi as president. World leaders in attendance included Russian President Vladimir Putin, Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. They were seated on the rostrum along with serving members and former top officials and generals of the People’s Liberation Army.
Full dossier of reportage of the Victory Day 80 military parade:
The South China Morning Post is making freely available to readers as a public service this full dossier of reportage of the Victory Day 80 military parade. The dossier includes a lengthy list of the weaponry that was on display as well as these three background reports published during the weeks preceding Victory Day 80 :
- The Red Arsenal: inside China’s cutting-edge weapon systems
- The Front Line: taking stock of China’s military modernisation
- After the War: 80 years on from the end of World War II
Related news:
* U.S./Japan/’South Korea’ imperialist alliance to stage ‘Freedom Edge’ military exercises Sept 15 to 19, 2025, report in South China Morning Post, Sept 5, 2025 (here in pdf format: U.S./Japan/’South Korea’ imperialist alliance to stage ‘Freedom Edge’ military exercises)
* Trump regime seeking to rebrand the ‘Department of Defense’ (the Pentagon) into the ‘Department of War’, report by NBC News, Sept 5, 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday rebranding the Department of Defense as the ‘Department of War’, a more bellicose version of the original name dating from the 18th-century… President Harry Truman oversaw the first name change, from the ‘Department of War’ to the ‘National Military Establishment’ with the National Security Act of 1947, which organized all military services into a single entity led by a secretary of defense. Congress further amended the name in 1949, landing on ‘Department of Defense’ amid concerns that the abbreviation of the National Military Establishment (NME) sounded too similar to ‘enemy’… Secretary Pete Hegseth has for months pushed for reverting to the original name, arguing it would help further cement a “warrior ethos” in the military… Trump’s order does not formally rename the Department of Defense; that would require congressional approval. Instead, it makes the Department of War the secondary title and authorizes Hegseth to use titles like ‘secretary of war’ and ‘Department of War’ in official correspondence and public communications. To further cement the rebrand, Trump’s order requires all executive departments and agencies to “recognize and accommodate these secondary titles in internal and external communications.”…
* Taiwan regime’s criticism of Victory Day 80 parade in Beijing exposes its own weaknesses, by Alex Lo (columnist), South China Morning Post, Sept 4, 2025 The governing Democratic Peoples Party of Taiwan is trying to erode the memory and de-legitimise the titanic national liberation war of the Chinese people (part of ‘World War Two’) to save the nation from the ravages of imperialist, military-fascist Japan (read the column here in pdf format: Taiwan regime’s criticism of Victory Day 80 parade in Beijing exposes its own weaknesses)
* National Assembly speaker of Korean regime in Seoul (‘South Korea’) calls handshake with Korea leader Kim Jong-un in Beijing on September 3 a ‘momentary but meaningful’ exchange, report in The Hankyoreh, Sept 4, 2025
* South Korea rattled by gestapo raid on Sept 4 by USA immigration police at Hyundai electric vehicle manufacturing plant complex in Georgia; 475 detained, most of them Korean nationals, Associated Press, Sept 6, 2025 The police raid focused on an adjacent plant still under construction where Hyundai has partnered with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that power EVs
