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The 70th national anniversary parade was the fifth major parade since Xi Jinping took power as CCP General Secretary (China's paramount leader) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (Commander-in-chief) in 2012, and occurred with the mass protests in Hong Kong that have been on-going since 9 June as backdrop.
It was the first naval parade by the PLAN since the 2018 South China Sea Parade just over year prior. Xi Jinping , General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission reviewed the parade in his position as party leader and commander-in-chief .
The 70th Anniversary of V-day parade marked the first time that China held a military parade other than the National Day, and the first to celebrate the end of World War II. [1] Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, China held parades primarily on 1 October, the country's national day.
In a 2019 speech commemorating the PRC’s 70th anniversary, Xi had said that no force could sway China’s development, amid festivities involving a military parade and large-scale celebrations ...
In a fearsome escalation of violence, Hong Kong police shot a protester in the chest at close range Tuesday, leaving the teenager bleeding and howling on the ground. Tens of thousands joined anti ...
It has been held every decade since 1959, annually from 1950 to 1959, and has been broadcast live on China Central Television since 1984. [2] The most recent National Day parade took place on October 1, 2019, on the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; 40th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party; 2015 China Victory Day Parade
HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China's history, was busy flying ...