Xi, Kim, Putin seem collectively
The leaders of China, Russia and North Korea have been photographed strolling to the parade collectively. It’s a hanging picture, that has been beamed onto massive screens in Beijing.
Xi Jinping (C) walks alongside Russia’s president Vladimir Putin (centre L) and North Korea’s chief Kim Jong -un (centre R) {Photograph}: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
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Kim Jong-un’s daughter makes worldwide debut
Pictures have emerged displaying North Korean chief Kim Jong-un stepping off his armoured prepare at Beijing Railway Station accompanied by his daughter, Kim Ju-ae.
Kim Jong-un accompanied by his daughter. {Photograph}: KCNA by way of KNS/AFP/Getty Pictures
There was intense worldwide hypothesis about Kim Ju-ae since she made her first public look in November 2022 when she watched a long-range missile check launch along with her father.
South Korea’s spy company has beforehand mentioned she is seen as her father’s inheritor obvious.
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Australian opposition chief Sussan Ley has criticised former Victorian Labor premier Daniel Andrews and former Labor overseas affairs minister Bob Carr this morning, over their journey to Beijing for the navy parade.
Ley mentioned:
I feel for these two people, they should clarify why they’re attending a navy parade that Vladimir Putin is attending and what that really tells the world.
Australian federal opposition chief Sussan Ley. {Photograph}: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
The shadow residence affairs minister, Andrew Hastie mentioned the choice to attend mirrored poorly on the judgment of Andrews and Carr.
It is a parade for dictators. It’s a celebration of the Chinese language Communist occasion … I stay up for seeing them clap like seals because the missiles roll by.
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The presence of the leaders from North Korea and Russia on the victory day parade is critical.
Xi Jinping is flanked on both facet by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un – the primary time the trio have appeared collectively.
Kim and Putin signed a defence pact in Pyongyang final 12 months, pledging navy help if both comes beneath assault. North Korea is beneath UN sanctions over its nuclear programme, whereas Russia has been hit with waves of western sanctions since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
China is North Korea’s solely formal ally and its foremost financial lifeline – about 90% of North Korea’s imports come from China. Kim final visited China in January 2019. Beijing additionally counts Russia as a strategic accomplice.
Putin, wished by the worldwide felony court docket, final travelled to China in 2024.
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Some photos from Tiananmen Sq.:
A veteran attends the navy parade. {Photograph}: Lintao Zhang/Getty PicturesSpectators and navy personnel collect forward of the navy parade. {Photograph}: Ng Han Guan/APSafety guards observe a rehearsal previous to the navy parade. {Photograph}: Lintao Zhang/Getty ImagesShare
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Xi, Kim, Putin seem collectively
The leaders of China, Russia and North Korea have been photographed strolling to the parade collectively. It’s a hanging picture, that has been beamed onto massive screens in Beijing.
Xi Jinping (C) walks alongside Russia’s president Vladimir Putin (centre L) and North Korea’s chief Kim Jong -un (centre R) {Photograph}: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Who’s on the visitor record?
China’s chief, Xi Jinping, will attend the parade alongside 26 visiting heads of state.
Among the many notable company: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, and North Korea’s chief, Kim Jong-un.
Seating preparations will likely be intently watched – a photo-op of Xi, Putin and Kim facet by facet can be a strong picture.
Different attendees embrace Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko, Iran’s president Masoud Pezashkian and South Korea’s Nationwide Meeting speaker Woo Gained-shik.
Leaders from the US, western Europe, Japan, India and South Korea usually are not attending.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) converse throughout a gathering on the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, at some point forward of China’s Victory Parade {Photograph}: Alexander Kazakov/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN/EPA
The total record is as follows:
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov
Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu
Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa
Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing
Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
North Korean chief Kim Jong-un
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon
Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Vietnamese President Luong Cuong
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa
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Kim Jong-un, Putin and Xi Jinping are strolling collectively to observe the parade, we are going to deliver you the photographs as quickly as we will. It’s a rare sight.
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In the present day’s parade marks the eightieth anniversary of the top of the second world battle and Japan’s give up.
This ended a brutal battle in China – one of many foremost battlegrounds in Asia in the course of the battle – which claimed thousands and thousands of lives.
After Japan’s defeat, preventing continued between communist and nationalist forces till 1949, when the Folks’s Republic of China was established beneath Mao Zedong – the state Xi Jinping now leads.
Paramilitary police stand guard forward of a navy parade marking the eightieth anniversary of victory over Japan and the top of World Battle II, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Sq. on September 3, 2025. {Photograph}: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Pictures
Xi has made strengthening the Folks’s Liberation Military a central a part of his rule, and makes use of occasions like right now’s to undertaking navy energy and nationalist pleasure.
However the parade can also be a message to the west, displaying off China’s geopolitical would possibly.
You’ll be able to learn extra from the Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins:
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Welcome abstract
Howdy, I’m Ima Caldwell and I’ll be taking you thru our stay protection of China’s victory day parade in Beijing.
The navy showcase will unfold in Tiananmen Sq., beginning at 9am native time (CST), commemorating 80 years since Japan’s give up within the second world battle.
A police officer stands watch close to Tiananmen Sq. the place preparations are made forward to the Sept. 3 navy parade. {Photograph}: Ng Han Guan/AP
On the bottom there are highway closures and tight safety measures. We’re anticipating a speech by China’s chief Xi Jinping and a 70-minute parade of tens of 1000’s of troops, greater than 100 plane and an unlimited array of navy {hardware}. There will likely be land, sea, and air-based strategic weapons, superior precision warfare tools and drones on show, whereas warplanes and helicopters will fly in formation within the skies overhead.
It’s the primary main navy parade within the nation since 2019 and the seventieth anniversary of the founding of communist China. Analysts will likely be intently watching the parade for indicators of enhancements to China’s navy {hardware}.
However eyes will even be on the 26 heads of state attending the occasion. In addition to Vladimir Putin from Russia, Kim Jong-un from North Korea and Masoud Pezeshkian from Iran, leaders from Myanmar, Mongolia, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and central Asian international locations will witness China’s unveiling of a variety of combat-ready weaponry. The one western leaders on the visitor record printed by China’s ministry of overseas affairs are from Serbia and Slovakia.
You learn concerning the construct as much as the occasion right here:
Stick with us because it all unfolds…
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