PRC/PLA 2015 Victory Parade Thread

Verum

Junior Member
I really hope there's no cliché units like those we saw in the past, like a bunch of women with pink skirts marching with guns in their hands. That's just pure bizarre.
 

Blackstone

Brigadier
I really hope there's no cliché units like those we saw in the past, like a bunch of women with pink skirts marching with guns in their hands. That's just pure bizarre.
Oh come on, don't be such a stick in the mud! I think whiskey troopers in pink are kind of cute. Harkens back to WACS and WAVES of WWII.
 

jkliz

Junior Member
Registered Member
Oh come on, don't be such a stick in the mud! I think whiskey troopers in pink are kind of cute. Harkens back to WACS and WAVES of WWII.
Yea but speaking as a member of the millennial generation, I have to say that would be too flashy. Everything has to be menacing and grimdark! :)
 

by78

General
If they are to be rehearsing for the parade for three months prior then at this point they would already have been under way for several weeks. Somebody leak some photos please!

They are almost done building a mockup of the Tiananmen gate as we speak...
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Entrance to one of the training grounds for the parade:
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I wish I knew the coordinates for this location. I bet something will eventually show up on Google maps.
 

solarz

Brigadier
I really hope there's no cliché units like those we saw in the past, like a bunch of women with pink skirts marching with guns in their hands. That's just pure bizarre.

I happen to have enjoyed that very much.
 

jkliz

Junior Member
Registered Member
I hope not. Showing off nuclear weapons is silly. It'd be a nightmare for all of humanity were they ever used.
 

solarz

Brigadier
I hope not. Showing off nuclear weapons is silly. It'd be a nightmare for all of humanity were they ever used.

I think they showed ballistic missiles in the 60th anniversary parade.

Anyway, the value of nuclear weapons is deterrence. They function best when they're not being used. If you're forced to use them, then you've already lost, in one way or another.
 
I really hope there's no cliché units like those we saw in the past, like a bunch of women with pink skirts marching with guns in their hands. That's just pure bizarre.

I remember them, to this day I still don't know who they were. Could have passed for flight attendants... female air marshals? ;)
 
If these guys show up it will certainly be a lot more meaningful than nuclear missiles.

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World | Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:47am EDT
China invites former soldiers in Taiwan to war commemorations
BEIJING

China will welcome former soldiers living in Taiwan who fought against Japan in World War Two to take part in commemorations marking 70 years since the end of the conflict in Asia, state media said on Wednesday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will oversee a military parade through Beijing's Tiananmen Square and other events on Sept. 3 and has invited foreign military officials to take part, though not said explicitly who will come.

After World War Two, Chinese Communists and Nationalists resumed a civil war that ended when Nationalist forces withdrew to Taiwan in 1949.

Though ruled separately, China claims Taiwan as its own, and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under its rule. No peace treaty to formally end the war has ever been signed.

Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said Beijing would welcome anyone from Taiwan to take part, but especially old soldiers, family members and descendents, state news agency Xinhua said.

"Victory in the war against Japan was a great victory for the entire nation," Ma said. "Under the new historical conditions, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait (should) jointly remember the victory."

China's ruling Communist Party never misses an opportunity to remind people of its struggle against the Japanese, but a lot of the fighting was actually done by the forces of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government.

While China and Taiwan have signed a series of landmark trade and economic deals since the China-friendly Ma Ying-jeou became president of Taiwan in 2008, there are still deep political and military suspicions, especially in proudly democratic Taiwan.

Japan's 1895-1945 rule in Taiwan is seen by some as having been good for the island's development. Perceptions of Japan in other parts of Asia, particularly in China and Korea, are often deeply negative.

Nationalist Chinese rule post-1945 is thought of less positively by many Taiwanese, because of the long period of martial law it ushered in.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Note that Japan built up Taiwan because it was used as a base for Japan to further invade the rest of China and Asia.
 
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