2025 China Victory Day Parade

ety said:
Russians still have apprehensions of China being their giant neighbor. So when compared to India, they are more tight about military tech transfer or selling more advanced weapons to China not only nuke subs but also like aircraft fighters before. But, I don't think the nuke sub tech transfer to India is the most advanced one. Anyway, Chinese nuke sub tech are catching up very fast if not surpassing soon, so I don't know if there is still real need now.
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India is a big elephant but China is a bigger elephant you are the biggest security threat to the russians. Putin constantly talks of NATO as excuse for aggression but that’s nothing than cheap propaganda. if anything it’s always individual countries as the US nuclear arsenal. the NATO has no nuke, it only exists on paper.
technologically the russians have nothing to offer. very possible China will overtake Russia in no time.
 
Viet said:
India is a big elephant but China is a bigger elephant you are the biggest security threat to the russians. Putin constantly talks of NATO as excuse for aggression but that’s nothing than cheap propaganda. if anything it’s always individual countries as the US nuclear arsenal. the NATO has no nuke, it only exists on paper.
technologically the russians have nothing to offer. very possible China will overtake Russia in no time.
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If China hadn't suffered a demographic problem, Putin would indeed see China as the biggest threat. But the population of northeast China is growing negatively. Putin won't believe China will invade Siberia when it can't even provide enough population to open up the Northeast.
 
MH.Yang said:
If China hadn't suffered a demographic problem, Putin would indeed see China as the biggest threat. But the population of northeast China is growing negatively. Putin won't believe China will invade Siberia when it can't even provide enough population to open up the Northeast.
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The Chinese gov should do something about the depopulation in the Northeast. China should populate more in the vast Northeast, Xinjiang and Tibet. Put more money and resources to develop these less developed regions instead of acting like a Santa Claus pouring money and resource into third world countries to develop them, cut down the investments and scales of BRI projects, take care all of China first. No good for the country if majority Chinese are crowded into Eastern cities.
 

China’s military parade shows the world it is ‘armed to the teeth’​

September 1 2025

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Political analyst Joe Siracusa claims China’s military parade shows the world that Beijing is “armed to the teeth”.

“These military parades, they give me the chills,” he told Sky News Australia.

“These military parades, they have two purposes. [one' is to keep the people settled down, let people see what’s happening in their own countries, and to scare.”

 

China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World​

On September 3, China will hold a “Victory Day” military parade in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan—and to send the West a message.
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SEP 1, 2025 6:30 AM

China's military parade

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CHINA IS PREPARING for one of the most anticipated and politically charged military events in recent years. On September 3, in Tiananmen Square, China will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II with a spectacular military parade that is not only a ritual of historical remembrance but also a message to the entire world to be prepared for the war of the future.

President Xi Jinping and several foreign leaders and officials, including Vladimir Putin, will attend the ceremony. The Russian president's presence is reported to have prompted several European ambassadors to consider defecting from the event, fearing it would contribute to the Kremlin's international legitimization amid the ongoing war against Ukraine.

China’s New Weapons Send a Message​

The parade will last about 70 minutes and will see dozens of formations parading down Chang'an Avenue in the heart of Beijing. Xi, as supreme commander of the armed forces, will review the troops before the march through the square. More than 10,000 military personnel, more than 100 aircraft, and hundreds of ground vehicles will be involved.

The official theme is the celebration of peace and international justice, but the real content will be the demonstration of the People's Liberation Army's ability to fight high-tech wars in new strategic domains: cyberspace, outer space, electronic and hypersonic warfare. According to leaked information from Chinese dress rehearsals and official sources, more than 100 models of weapon systems, all domestically produced and already in operational service, will be on display.

Enter the Anti-Ship Missiles​

Among the most anticipated weapons are the new YJ (Ying Ji, "Eagle Shot") series anti-ship missiles, designated YJ-15, YJ-17, YJ-19, and YJ-20. These are systems designed for a specific mission: to neutralize large US naval units, particularly aircraft carriers, the heart of American supremacy in the Pacific. These carriers are part of China's A2/AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) strategy, i.e., the creation of "defensive bubbles" that can prevent or make it too risky for enemy fleets to access the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Western Pacific.

China has developed a wide range of anti-ship missiles in recent decades, often starting with Soviet technologies, and then surpassing them with indigenous designs since the YJ-8 in the 1980s, derived from French Exocets. With the new series, China is aiming for a further qualitative leap, combining stealth, hypersonic speed, and artificial intelligence.

The exact specifications are top secret, but from general tests and expert analysis, some distinguishing features come into focus. First: speed of at least Mach 4-6, thus in the range of hypersonic missiles, with terminal maneuvering capability to evade anti-missile systems. Second: range of hundreds of kilometers. Third: combined flight profile, with the cruise phase at medium-high altitude, followed by grazing descent to the sea to reduce the possibility of interception. Fourth: multiple guidance with Beidou satellite, active radar, and IR sensors. Fifth: launch versatility, adaptable to aircraft, ships, submarines, and mobile land platforms, increasing possible saturation against enemy fleets. Put together, these weapons signal to the United States that aircraft carriers are no longer untouchable, and the Pacific is no longer an "American sea."

Going Hypersonic​

Also expected at the parade are new launchers capable of overcoming US missile defenses and providing Beijing with credible strategic deterrence. Rehearsal images show road-mobile ballistic missile systems, an ideal weapon to ensure so-called second strikes in the event of a nuclear conflict. China is developing and deploying a new generation of advanced mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), designed to ensure the survival of the nuclear deterrence force in the event of a preemptive strike.

Among the main models is the DF-31AG, with an estimated range of more than 11,000 kilometers (6,835 miles), capable of hitting any target in the continental United States. Next up is the DF-41. Considered the most powerful intercontinental missile in China, it has a range of over 12,000 to 15,000 kilometers (7,456 to 9,320 miles) and can carry up to 10 MIRV warheads, each capable of hitting a different target. It is mobile and can be launched from both silos and rail platforms. Beijing is also banking heavily on the JL-3, an ICBM that can be launched from nuclear submarines, currently being deployed on the new Type 096 class of submarines.

The Lethal Stealth Drone​

According to several analysts, the September 3 parade will also feature the FH-97: China's first unmanned aircraft declared combat-ready. Nicknamed “loyal wingman,” it is capable of operating in synergy with manned fighters, carrying out reconnaissance, attack, and electronic jamming missions. If confirmed, China would become the first country in the world to have a this type of stealth drone declared "combat ready," ahead of even the United States and Australia, which are still experimenting with similar models such as Australia's Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat or the US Skyborg project.

Many details remain confidential, but from what has emerged, the FH-97 can carry guided bombs and air-to-air or air-to-surface missiles, and packs sensors for reconnaissance and electronic warfare. In addition, it can network with fighters such as the J-20 or J-16, acting as a force multiplier for offensive and defensive missions. Finally, it should have artificial intelligence systems to maneuver independently, follow preprogrammed routes, avoid threats, and cooperate with manned aircraft. Showing this aircraft in public means signaling to Washington, Tokyo, and Taipei that Beijing is capable of supporting next-generation air operations that are difficult to counter with current defense doctrines.

Block and Tackle​

Alongside hypersonic missiles and ICBM, China's developing weapons include a less conspicuous but potentially revolutionary arsenal: electronic warfare systems and directed-energy weapons. If missiles are the weapon of visible deterrence, electronic and directed energy weapons are silent tools that can blind enemy radar and communication systems, neutralize drones and missiles in flight, and protect Chinese forces from cyber- and space attacks.

China has invested heavily in the field, seeing it as decisive in winning "informatized" and "intelligentized" conflicts. China's mobile land and naval systems can jam the frequencies used by airborne radars, cruise missiles, and satellites, while some People's Army brigades combine cyberattacks and electronic jamming, simultaneously targeting enemy hardware and software. Direct-energy weapons, on the other hand, use concentrated beams of energy (lasers, microwaves, high-power electromagnetic waves) to strike targets without traditional projectiles.

Also on display will be the latest models of reconnaissance drones and combat drones, including unmanned underwater ones, expanding Chinese surveillance capabilities in disputed waters.

The debut at the September 3 parade of these systems has strong symbolic value: Beijing wants to show that it has not only caught up with the West, but in some areas, aims to surpass it.

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China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

On September 3, China will hold a “Victory Day” military parade in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan—and to send the West a message.
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China’s military parade is a show of strength from a country devastated in World War II​

by: KEN MORITSUGU, Associated Press

Sep 1, 2025 / 08:28 PM CDT

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949.

It was a far cry from the military might the country will display Wednesday in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. A Japanese invasion before and during the conflict devastated China and left millions of people dead.

“Now you see our country’s planes … , no one dares to mess with them,” the veteran told journalists at a war museum in the city of Shenyang. His chest covered with ribbons and medals, Yang expressed pride in his country’s rise.

The ruling Communist Party is trying to amplify that feeling by playing up the war anniversary with spruced-up museums, new war movies and the military parade, attended by leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Beijing is playing to domestic and outside audiences​

To the outside world, the missiles, tanks and fighter jets at the parade will be a show of strength as China seeks to portray itself as an alternative to the American-dominated postwar era.

Domestically, the commemoration is an effort to show how far the country has come — and in so doing, build support for the party and its leader, President Xi Jinping. China was a major front in World War II, a fact often overlooked in accounts that focus more on the fight for Europe and U.S. naval battles in the Pacific.

“It’s a really important part of the Communist Party’s legitimizing narrative as the leader of the Chinese people,” said Emily Matson, a scholar of modern Chinese history who teaches at Georgetown and George Washington universities.

China’s rise has reshaped how it views the war​

The party didn’t always make such a big deal about the end of the war. The Communists only came to power four years later, and the bulk of the fighting was done by their rivals, the Nationalist government they overthrew in 1949.

The wartime struggle was less pertinent in the first decades of communist rule, when the focus was on building a socialist state.

That began to change in 1978, when the party launched the reforms that propelled China’s economic rise. Its message gradually shifted from the triumph of the working class to nation-building.

“This is a new nationalism in that it begins to include not just the Chinese proletariat but the whole Chinese nation,” Matson said.

Over time, the defeat of Japan became part of the nation-building story, a starting point marking the end of a long period when foreign powers imposed their will on a weaker China.

Wartime history has risen in importance under Xi​

Xi, who came to power in 2012, has stepped up a drive to build a strong country that can no longer be bullied. His government pushed back against new U.S. tariffs this year, forcing President Donald Trump to scale them down.

In 2014, the government designated Sept. 3 — the day after Japan formally surrendered — as Victory Day. The following year, the 70th anniversary of the war’s end, it staged a military parade on the day for the first time.

Party historians define Japan’s defeat as a turning point. It laid an important foundation for the rebuilding of the nation, said Wang Junwei, the chair of the Academic and Editorial Council at the Institute of Party History and Literature.

“The victory in the anti-Japanese war transformed the Chinese nation from deep crisis toward great rejuvenation,” he said.

A war museum visitor thinks of Gaza​

For China, the fighting in what it calls the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began long before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

An extensive exhibition on the war opened in July at a museum on the outskirts of Beijing near the centuries-old Marco Polo Bridge, where skirmishes in 1937 would grow into Japan’s invasion of China.

The party has, since 2017, said the war started even earlier — in 1931, when Japan occupied an area then known as Manchuria. The northeast region is home to the war museum in Shenyang, which reopened last month after an exterior face-lift.

Visitors to both museums peered at artifacts of military life and grainy black and white photos of the suffering and the atrocities.

“We paid a very painful price,” middle school teacher Yan Hongjia said at the museum. She drew a parallel to the ongoing war in the Mideast.

“Let’s think about it, if the children in Gaza during the war were our children, would we be willing to relive this history, this humiliation and this pain?” Yan said.

As Trump shakes up postwar order, China claims it​

Harvard historian Rana Mitter, who has written extensively on China’s war experience, noticed some changes in the party’s presentation of the war when he visited the same exhibition.

One was the playing up of the role of Soviet military pilots who helped China in the early years of the fighting, a nod to China’s deepening relationship with Russia. Putin is holding talks with Xi on Tuesday.

Another was the increased prominence given to China’s role as a founding member of the United Nations. China is positioning itself as a defender of the global order as Trump rips up established norms on international relations or bends them to his liking.

“World War II is being used as the framing to argue that China is now the real inheritor of that 1945 global order,” Mitter said.

Sands of time shift Asian alliances​

In the 1940s, the U.S., China and other allies confronted and drove back Japan’s military-led expansion into Asia. Eight decades later, the U.S. and Japan are allies confronting a China that has grown more powerful and assertive of what it sees as its rights.

For some neighbors, notably Taiwan and the Philippines, China has become the bully in the South China Sea.

Shin Kawashima, a China expert at the University of Tokyo, says that Beijing is using the parade to create an image of standing with Russia and others to counter America and other wealthy nations.

“China is trying to say that it was a key member leading the establishment of the postwar global order,” he said, “and that it has now reached a stage where it is catching up with and overtaking the United States.”

 

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Wondering what VLS munitions could they be.

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When will the parade start? GMT-wise?
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