Chinese leader Xi Jinping told thousands of soldiers gathered that China would not be intimidated by any country, while Beijing fights with Washington for commercial, technological and others, and Xi works to create an alternative to the global order led by the US.
“The Chinese nation is the great nation that is never intimidated by bullies,” said Xi before, who now passes through the center of Beijing.
“In the past, in the face of crucial struggles between good and evil, light and darkness, progress and reaction, the Chinese people came together to defeat the enemy,” he said.
Although it has not appointed any specific country or opponent, Chinese authorities usually criticize those as bullies and condemn what they call “Western Hegemony.”
A fundamental principle of the Xi government has been its promise to restore the country’s greatness, undoing the “century of humiliation” during which the Qing Empire and, later, the Republic of China were subdued by foreign powers, with territories such as Hong Kong, Manchuria and much of Shanghai reduced to colonies and concessions.
Xi’s answer to the so-called Western hegemony is to build a new world order, an effort that was evident today, when he and other cautious leaders with Washington-including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un-walked side by side on a flagrant demonstration of power.
