søndag 7. september 2025

Parades and charades at Tiananmen

On September 3, in a historic military parade in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping displayed a defense system capable of countering the United States. It showed that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is no longer an American junior partner, as some Americans have believed for the past 50 years, but a global power ready to defend and expand its interests.

Second, the Indian presence at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin two days earlier confirmed that the PRC is gaining new allies while the US is losing friends.

Third, China announced its philosophy for international politics, which seems to follow a policy of non-interference with the aims of great powers unless their claimed rights are violated. In theory, non-interference applies to all countries.