Hong Kong – Chinese army has become stronger, and he wants the world to know that.
The largest active army in the world, with more than two million individuals, maintains one of its largest careers on Wednesday, which is the “Victory Day” scene, which was highly designed to celebrate the eighties of the Japanese Empire at the end of World War II.
The Great event in Beijing will not only show the increasing ability of China to compete with the United States in any future conflict, but support from some of the most approved countries in the world in a unity offer against the West.
Thousands of forces will go through the Tiananmen Square, where they will be reviewed by Chinese President Xi Jinping as Prime Minister and State from 26 other countries.
The list of guests is at the forefront of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who pressed him The war against Ukraine, despite the advancement of American peace, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a rare departure from his nuclear armed state.
The leaders of the United States and other Western governments refused to attend the show, in part due to the presence of Putin.
It comes amid increasing military tensions in the region where China collides with the neighbors in the South China Sea, the United States and its allies for the potential struggle for Taiwan, the autonomous island democracy that Biking claims its lands.
“It is definitely a force,” said Drew Thompson, a senior colleague at the College of International Studies at Nianang, Singapore. “It is a way to show China’s neighbors, other countries around the world, that the Chinese army is huge.”
The show will present the growing military force in China during the era of Xi, who supervised the update campaign as well as the political cleansing operations of senior officials and even defense ministers.
Elsa B said. Kania, a PhD candidate in US security cases: “It has now become more powerful more powerful than nearby peers, if not a real counterpart, for the American army in many respects.”
China, which is the annual defense spending It is estimated that it is about a third Of the $ 1.3 trillion spent by the United States, he said its goal is that the military update be “mainly” by 2035, and for the Chinese army to be “world -class” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of Communist rule.
“The United States is the only world army in the world, and we still need to catch up with the United States-so it takes some time,” Zhu Po, a older colleague at the International Security and Strategy Center at the University of Tsinghwa in Beijing, told NBC News in an interview.
“But, by 2049, who is still far, we should be confident of reaching the goal,” said Chu, a retired colonel in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
The confidence offered
Security was narrow in Beijing in the weeks before the offer, companies and traffic disrupted. The tanks circulating in the streets can be heard during the weekly exercises that were in the city center and conducted with great confidentiality.
This is the first military procession in China since 2019, when Beijing celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and the third under the supervision of the eleventh, which also held one in 2015 for the seventieth anniversary of Japan’s delivery.
The legacy of World War II is still a sensitive issue between Japan and China, which is estimated to have suffered from 20 million and 35 million military and civil deaths during the 14 -year invasion and occupation that China calls the resistance war against the Japanese aggression.
Thompson, the former director of China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the US Department of Defense, said that the offer aims to the Chinese public as much as it is with foreign opponents.
He said: “It is one of the opposing feelings of Japan to increase the legitimacy of the party in the eyes of its people,” especially while the Chinese public is concerned about the slow economy.
According to what was reported, Japan, a major ally of the United States, urged other countries not to attend, prompting China to file a diplomatic complaint.
According to the Chinese government, a lot of equipment listed in the width is detected for 70 minutes for the first time.
In addition to the forces, the show will include more than 100 aircraft and hundreds of land weapons, all of which are made locally and ready for battle.
General Wu Zek, deputy director of the show, said that the “new generation” offered equipment reflects a high degree of information and intelligence, which confirms the ability of our army to adapt to technological progress and advanced war patterns, and gain future conflicts.
The air and missile defense systems that can make the HQ-19, HQ-26 and the most advanced HQ-29 appearance, all designed to intercept ballistic missiles and are believed to have similar capabilities for the equivalent American systems.
Military observers also monitor any new ballistic missiles between continents as well as sound crossing and hyperactivity.
Cheneji Yamagucci, an older research colleague in the Chinese Studies Department at the National Institute of Defense Studies, said that such missiles “pose a major threat to US naval ships,” which will be essential for any American military intervention in the Asia and Pacific region.
Yamagucci said that China is also expected to display independent drones, especially since the war in Ukraine changed the “really war method”, as well as underwater vehicles, also known as marine drones.
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Jet fighters will also be to focus after Pakistan said it used the Chinese J-10CS to shoot down Indian aircraft during a four-day conflict in May.
But while China has become more open to width weapons as its confidence grows, it is difficult to know what is behind the scenes.
The “dramatic” removal of officials raised “questions about Shi Jinping’s confidence in military leaders, or about whether the regular problems of corruption can be solved.”
There was only a few demonstration in the real world of the actual capabilities of the Chinese army, whose last experience was in a widespread struggle against Vietnam in 1979.
Tomson said, “None of this has been tested. No one knows,” Tomson said. “This may be one of the reasons why China depends on this very traditional form of deterrence and signal in the form of an offer.”
Jennifer Gate of Hong Kong and Janes Maki Fire from Beijing.