Regional Leaders Praise the Sept. 3 Celebration in Beijing
Sept. 5—Global Times gathered comments from regional leaders and media on the impact of the Sept. 3 Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing:
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar lbrahim stated, this “served as a timely reminder that a nation’s sovereignty must always be defended and safeguarded,” reported Bernama.com.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic thanked the “sincere friendship” toward Serbia by President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people, adding that “China has always stood by Serbia, especially in difficult times. Serbia and the Serbian people will never forget this!”
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli hailed the event as “a truly historic gathering of global friendship and remembrance.”
Miguel Díaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban President, wrote on his X account on Sept. 3 in Chinese that “admiring China’s glorious history and its progress today, [I] sincerely thank the Communist Party of China, the government, and the people for their steadfast unity and vital support in countering the [U.S.] blockade.”
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told the Global Times on Sept. 3: “With my presence on behalf of the Hungarian government, we wanted to show respect to the Chinese people, and we wanted to show how important it is for us to have a foundation of this relationship based on mutual respect.”
Yesenia Peredo Mendoza, a reporter from Bolivia, told the Global Times that the event was “important for the world to remember how we can think more in the future. I have high expectations about China, the culture, the people, the history, too…. I will show the parade to my country; show that to the world.”
News outlets, including the AP, Bloomberg, and BBC, have paid attention to the development of weapons and equipment of the Chinese military. The BBC said that, from massive, underwater torpedoes to state-of-the-art laser weapons that shoot down drones, China’s latest military parade will now be analyzed by Pentagon experts and defense officials around the world.
CNN also emphasized the military aspect, admitting the weakness of Western military capacity: “The huge volume of military hardware exhibited shows that China has the industrial might to back up its words…. It’s the kind of industrial capacity the U.S. put together to win World War II, the end of which Wednesday’s parade was said to commemorate. But while U.S. industry spelled the end of the Axis powers 80 years ago, America now doesn’t have the capacity to turn out weaponry in the numbers that China can.”
The New York Times said the massive parade “signals that China won’t be bullied again” and issues a defiant warning to rivals not to challenge the country’s sovereignty. The leaders of many Southeast Asian and Central Asian nations attended the parade, showing China’s success in strengthening regional partnerships, said the New York Times report.