Beijing prepares for grand military parade

The theater was placed in the heart of Beijing for a large presentation of power and military power designed by President Xi Jinping.

Eight huge Chinese flags flutter and wander in the image of Mao Zaidong, the founder of Communist China, which is located at the top of the heavenly peace gate overlooking the Tiananmen Square, one of the largest public squares in the world.

Here are ranks of the seats allocated to 26 foreign heads of the country, including Vladimir Putin and North Korea, Kim Jong Un, who won a diplomat for XI.

Through the road, near the great hall of people, two huge phenomena arrangements celebrate the end of World War II along with seats for about 50,000 invitations.

On the last day of preparations – Monday – Changan Street, the multi -lane road was cutting the square again to the public. Drivers and bikers carried their phones high as they are trying to do their best to pick up the scene.

Outwardly, the show is 80 years of Japan’s surrender in the war, and China’s victory over the power of the occupation. But he is much more than President Xi.

This is a big week for him, with a few first. He lured Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China during the weekend for the first time in seven years, re -operating a major economic and strategic relationship.

More than 20 world leaders attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit (SCO), which has just ended – the largest gathering ever.

A North Korean leader will attend a Chinese military parade for the first time since 1959.

The Chinese leader has a moment in the spotlight.

The Sco Summit in Tianjin allowed him to show power and present a vision of a new global system that hopes to challenge the United States. Attention is now turning into the show in Beijing, which will show his country’s increasing ability to compete with the United States in any conflict.

The leaders of Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Central Asian countries will witness the formations of micro forces and get a glimpse of what the authorities say will be a new unproductive weapon and an underwater drone. The only Western leaders in the list of guests are from Serbia and Slovakia.

Kim Jong Un is a sudden addition – and his attendance was only announced at the end of last week – and its armored train and the usual procession vehicle that surrounds personal guards will add to the scene.

Xi Kim and Putin are expected to have next to him, which will inevitably lead to the headlines of Western newspapers or the analysts who describe them as the “axis of the turmoil.”

While the show is a display of China’s strength and the influence of Xi as a global leader, there is also a clear local message: pride and patriotism.

China describes the Second World War as “the war of a people resistance against Japanese aggression”, although many resistance was not from the Communist Party, but from the nationalists who later lost the civil war to Mao and its forces, and was largely cleaned of national memory.

In the period before the anniversary, many films depicted this conflict, some of which were at the box office. Government media publishes reports to “enhance the correct view of the history of World War II.”

The campaign caused some friction with Japan. Last week, Beijing made a protest with Tokyo on reports that Japan had asked European and Asian governments not to attend the offer.

It seems that all of this is part of a crowd cry over the nation, as China is struggling with a slow economy, youth unemployment and low home prices. The demand is weak and the latest data indicates that the Trump tariff reaches factory production. The “anti -corruption” engine continues, with reports of high -ranking officials.

There is discontent, even disappointment, especially among young people, and even on the Chinese internet that is tightly controlled.

Fear that this could mature to the real world is what was leading preparations out of caution, which has become a demonstration of the party’s control of the capital’s home for more than 21 million people. The city grew quietly as the show approaches.

Airport security scanners are installed at some office entrances. All drones are banned and international journalists are visited at home, some of them on multiple occasions, to ensure that the message is received.

The guards are concentrated 24 hours a day on the entrances to bridges and bridges to prevent any protests, some of whom wear military uniforms.

Three years ago, when the party chose Xi as a leader in a third historic term, a The protester canceled a sign on the main highway bridge Criticism of something and called for toppling it. It was immediately transferred and we still do not know what happened to him.

But this is a moment that the party does not want to recover.

Communist Party officials spent months of planning and preparing for its first military parade in six years. More than 200,000 marks have been placed across the capital.

More pink arrangements depicted China against Japan sits proudly on the sides of the roads and highlights. There is even a new city “Lightscape” for the brightness of buildings in the commercial area.

“The comprehensive principle … is to avoid disturbing the public as much as possible,” said officials from the Display Office.

But for those who live in Beijing, the show has turned life.

The tanks circulating in the streets can be heard during the weekly exercises overnight and the march sounds are frequently removed by the display.

People who live near Changan Street, which leads to Tiananmen Square, were asked to stay outside their balconies to ensure the possibility of rehearsals in secrecy.

Schools, companies and hotels will be closed along the display track for the next two days. There are many road conversion and closure of metro lines, which have already been paralyzed inside and outside the city center.

Even getting a joint city bike, often the best way to wrap around Beijing, can be annoying now. There are usually hundreds of them lined outside the metro stations, and along the sidewalks. But recently, the city’s workers gathered them to move them away by showing. Try to rent the stranger that he left behind is not an option: the bike will not move.

There were reports in the past that China had used its air weapon to ensure a blue sky in the width. The plane can process the weather to run rain by paying the cloud a day or two before, to ensure that it is clear after that.

It is difficult to know if this tactic has been used this year, but the predictors expect a clear sky. Bijin officials do not take any opportunities on President Xi Great Day.