Posted on 10/01/2009 9:40:40 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Communist China celebrates 60th anniversary with instruments of war and words of peace
The day of festivities is full of contrasting images. Tanks and goose-stepping soldiers travel along a parade route as TV commentators discuss the nation's love of peace.
By Barbara Demick
1:50 PM PDT, October 1, 2009
Reporting from Beijing
At the end of a gala today celebrating Communist China's 60th anniversary, President Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, got down from their podium and joined hands with the dancers in Tiananmen Square.
It was a symbolic gesture designed to soften the image of a remote and authoritarian leadership that was reinforced by a military parade earlier in the day.
But the day of festivities was like that -- full of contrasting images and a hodgepodge of sometimes contradictory slogans.
The People's Liberation Army paraded the weapons of war -- missiles, fighter jets, tanks -- while official commentators on Chinese television and radio waxed on about the nation's love of peace.
More than 80,000 Beijing students performed stunts with colored fans and balls in anachronistic technique usually associated with North Korea's dictatorship, but the slogans they spelled were all about "democracy," "reform," "opening up" and "scientific development."
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Ping!
It is the same lie that Russia uses during their Victory Day parades, but yet it is the USSR on display there for a day. The Chinese must have learned from their Russian counterparts.
To think, the Russians may do the card thing next year. It is the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII.
BTW, the PAK-FA may be seen for the first time during that parade.
Remember, the Communist definition of “peace” is a lack of resistance to Socialism.
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