History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

WHEN CHINA STAGED ITS MILITARY PARADE in Beijing last week, much of the commentary in the West focused on the political optics: Vladimir Putin was a prominent guest, joined by Kim Jong-un, Narendra ...

And it is a question that US President Donald Trump, fresh off his “12 (out of ten)” meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi ...

China’s President Xi Jinping delivers a speech following the military parade in Beijing on September 3, 2025 [Jade Gao/AFP] China hosted a major military parade in its capital, Beijing, on Wednesday, ...

-While the West focused on a defense expo in Poland, China staged one of the largest military parades in its history—a meticulously controlled pageant of new weaponry aimed directly at the United ...

The huge military parade through central Beijing on Wednesday was a deliberately fearsome display of weaponry designed to send a message that Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order with China at the ...