Blackstone
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CCP building bridges with KMT to counter the DPP. How quaint.If these guys show up it will certainly be a lot more meaningful than nuclear missiles.
CCP building bridges with KMT to counter the DPP. How quaint.If these guys show up it will certainly be a lot more meaningful than nuclear missiles.
According to news articles from Taiwan, ROC's defense ministry already instructed their veterans' affairs division to "talk them out of it" should and when the surviving veterans receives such invitation from PRC.CCP building bridges with KMT to counter the DPP. How quaint.
If they've gone to this length then probably a move towards a more permenant parade-preparation facility instead of a tent city as in the past. Now, instead of having Google Map getting updated photo shots, I'd pin my bet on some news agency pay high bucks to Space Imaging for a photo shot over Beijing region in a week or so, catching not just the facility but the vehicles parked in the yard.They are almost done building a mockup of the Tiananmen gate as we speak...
Entrance to one of the training grounds for the parade:
I wish I knew the coordinates for this location. I bet something will eventually show up on Google maps.
If those new TEL are now in service, they might be.Do you think that the new all-terrain ICBM TEL will make an appearance in this parade?
Xi invited Abe to attend the Anti-Fascist celebration in September:
Rough Translation:
Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping revealed during the BRICS/SCO meeting that President Xi Jinping already sent the invitation for the Seventy Year World Victory against Fascism celebration to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. All six of SCO's core members confirmed attendance of the celebratory events in September.
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Wonder what Abe's response will be.
yeah.... NO. I would lay money that Abe will say no, The Invite is basically a insult and meant to shame Japan any Representative of the State of Japan would be Jeered and more or less be made to look shamed.
It would be like Hannibal voluntarily marching in a Roman triumph.
Indeed, I think that is the crux of China and SK's problem with all the carefully crafted 'apologies' Japanese governments have made in the past - it seems extremely insincere, and hence hollow.
Its the kind of apology you would expect some corporate lawyer would craft after a court order to do so to express regret and condolence but admit no wrongdoing.
The primary reason the Japanese are so determinedly unwilling to make any admission of guilt or a real damned apology is because they themselves still identify with the wartime government.
If Xi actually invited Abe to the celebration, this would be an ingenious thing to do. No matter what Abe does, he would be wrong.
If he actually accepts the invitation, that means he agrees with China and the rest of the world in that Japan was a fascist state during the WWII and what they did was wrong. So much so that he is willing the celebrate Japan's own defeat with them. This is something that the Japanese govnts have refused to admit. If he doesn't accept the invitation, it also means he identifies Japan as the enemy of all those who accept the invitation. And it also means that he still thinks his own current govnt as the same as, a continuation of, the administration that held office during the WWII. I don't think anyone in the Jaoanese govnt has openly admitted yet. The world will know what they actually believe.
One thing that I do know is that Germany always openly admits that what they did during the WWII was wrong. They are always happy to celebrate the defeat of the Nazis with everyone in the world.