In pictures: China's 'world class' army holds military parade to mark 90th anniversary
"The world is not all at peace. Peace must be safeguarded," says Chinese President Xi Jinping at military parade.
Chinese President Xi Jinping touted the need to build a “world-class” army capable of “defeating all invading enemies” at a military parade held on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Since coming to power in 2012, the president has trumpeted building a stronger, combat-ready army, while leading efforts to centralise the ruling Communist Party’s control over the PLA, the world’s largest standing military.
Sunday’s procession — including 12,000 service personnel and about 700 aircraft and pieces of ground equipment — marked the first time Xi has observed a parade of this size staged in the field, according to the ministry of defence.
“The world is not all at peace. Peace must be safeguarded,” Xi, wearing a camouflage military suit, said in a speech at the expansive Zhurihe training base in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region.
“Today we are closer than ever before to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and — more than any other time in history — we need to build a strong people’s military.”
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Jul 31, 2017 11:45am
Man, amazing photography. You got amazing talent in Dawn when it comes to photography. To be frank, Indian media houses are crap when compared with dawn.
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Jul 31, 2017 11:45am
A lot of people but "Made in China" equipment probable means low quality effectiveness. For US forces, the PLA is still a walk-over opposition.
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Jul 31, 2017 11:49am
Grate strength this is actual super power of the world
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Jul 31, 2017 11:53am
Nice pictures..
I don't understand why China is so much scared of India.. Their threat to India on Dokalam was not genuine as their products.
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Jul 31, 2017 11:55am
Excellent photos of a great friendly country. Wishing all the best for China.
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Jul 31, 2017 11:59am
India should better have a look at it before doing anything stupid.
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Jul 31, 2017 12:03pm
@Sheraz India knows her limits friend China should also know hers .
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Jul 31, 2017 12:20pm
I'm depressed after seeing that many weapons :(
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Jul 31, 2017 12:21pm
True doctrine as regards global current affairs...
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Jul 31, 2017 01:05pm
@Malatesh Because Chinese are businessmen first and not warriors, India being a potential huge market for them.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:11pm
Almost every weapon platform is a copy of original US product.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:18pm
@IMTIAZ ALI KHAN This is call protecting the freedom and show of force so no one dares any misadventures.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:19pm
@Pawan K and it's the Chinese American who are making these weapons in America also.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:22pm
Paper tigers.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:25pm
Welcome to the club. Still they can't openly challenge and compete against the mighty U.S. armed forces, by far, the biggest and the most lethal military machine in the world.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:45pm
@SAMIR SHAH how many chinese are working in NASA. How many chinese are CEO of big American companies. So better you fool youself. Nobody in the world trust chinese people, so how come America will trust its enemy citizens.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:51pm
Nothing impressive inspite good photos. Not A challenge to US.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:52pm
@Jayesh I like Chinese people yaar, they are people like anyone good and bad in all of us. Just like us Sindhu People they have a very ancient civilization with some of the world's greatest philosophers. Love to the land of Confucius the Great!
IndoPak Blood Brothers 4 Life!
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Jul 31, 2017 01:56pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad , Dr. Sahab you must not forget that china has started all this just 20 to 25 years ago, yes they cannot compete mighty lethal force, but pretty soon they will reach there, they still have military for defence and not for aggresion as the mighty lethal force is.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:57pm
The PLA will always be loved by the Chinese people who they rescued in the Sichuan earthquake. The PLA is much more than simply the military arm of China. The tumblers of Chinese army in Guangzhou performed a Swan Lake that will never be forgotten.
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Jul 31, 2017 02:19pm
@Jayesh how many Indians doing slavery in Middle East and how many Chinese?
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Jul 31, 2017 02:23pm
There are lots of discomfort among Chinese people towards PLA and its policies. Day by day due to hypothetic arrogance by PLA, China is getting isolated on world forum, while India and its market in whole world is growing at alarming rate which is not yet noticed by PLA. Next 10-15 years would be crucial for China and specially PLA.
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Jul 31, 2017 02:42pm
Quantity not quality..Expert in First Copy.no quarantee
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Jul 31, 2017 02:49pm
@shahdab ...correct.one day china will be defeated by not by india or us but by freedom aspiring Chinese itself. Looking for vibrant democratic republic of china.
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Jul 31, 2017 02:58pm
Empires always have had big armies. Contradiction lies in the fact that the anti imperialist follow the footsteps of the imperialists.
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Jul 31, 2017 03:12pm
@Logical dude
This is a AFP report, the pictures and content is their property.
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Jul 31, 2017 03:21pm
Beautiful pictures ... thanks Dawn
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Jul 31, 2017 03:38pm
@SAMIR SHAH :
Protecting the freedom from who and what? It's pure expansion and misadventurism!
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Jul 31, 2017 04:14pm
These days, military might alone counts for nothing, it should be backed by economic & more imp backed by soft power. China's tiny neighbour S.Korea has all the three imp powers.
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Jul 31, 2017 04:43pm
@irad well said...we do appreciate the South Korea model of all round progress.
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Jul 31, 2017 04:59pm
@PROFESSOR -exactly this i what i was thinking ! wow ! this show is needed to tell the people internally what they are up against , if they dare start thinking ..
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Jul 31, 2017 05:00pm
@PROFESSOR -exactly this is what i was thinking ! wow ! this show is needed to tell the people internally what they are up against , if they dare start thinking ..
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Jul 31, 2017 05:15pm
@SAMIR SHAH Not correct dude.
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Jul 31, 2017 05:32pm
Looks impressive
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Jul 31, 2017 06:34pm
China is a peaceful and mature nation. Hope our region does not see any arms race or any conflicts . Soldiers on all sides are poor people and just doing their job to feed family. Best wishes to china and admiration for Chinese President Xi Ping for leading china so maturely and peacefully forward.
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Aug 01, 2017 01:57am
@Udayan Mitra they weren't even during Korean War and now they are a nightmare that might come true in the coming decades.
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Aug 01, 2017 03:19am
@Logical dude I agree with you about indian media
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Aug 01, 2017 05:12am
@Sachin Xi Xinping is promoting war rheoteric, which no world leader at this moment doing. Sad.
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Aug 01, 2017 07:50am
I think China is going through internal power crisis and I see a democratic movement coming up in China.
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Aug 01, 2017 10:25am
China tries doklam and got stopped by India with 2000 troops. The Chinese have never won a real war, maybe a few battles here and there in their history. China has backed off on Doklam which means they cant defend infrastructure built on disputed territories, including CPEC and tomorrow even Tibet is in question. They will not be able to defend their evil empire that gives its own people any freedom and commits genocides on others as in the case of Tibetans. They may have good hardware but they dont have the guts or righteousness on their side most of the time. Look at the ridiculous 9-dash line argument of theirs for their claims on the whole of the south china sea.
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Aug 01, 2017 10:32am
Great coverage by Dawn. Long Live China and Pakistan China Friendship.
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Aug 01, 2017 10:42am
chinese PLA always inferior to indian and pak army. they got style but when it comes to real fight they lack at strategy level.
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Aug 01, 2017 01:48pm
@Siddhartha Yes, Communist rule will collapse anytime
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Aug 01, 2017 02:16pm
@Logical dude These photos are released by News Agency China. Please read their captions.
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Aug 01, 2017 03:29pm
there is a big difference in public perception for a military parade , between a democracy and a dictatorship ..
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Aug 01, 2017 04:25pm
not that impressive actually
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Aug 01, 2017 06:39pm
@Sheraz supporting someone is fine but cheer-leading is stooping to a different level.
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Aug 02, 2017 03:07am
@Malatesh Pics are sourced from Reuters, same pics available on RT
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Aug 02, 2017 08:21am
@Sheraz everything is accounted! dont worry!
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Aug 02, 2017 02:52pm
@imtiaz ali khan Loved your tag line "IndoPak Blood Brothers 4 Life!".
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Aug 03, 2017 12:47am
@Malatesh;
Their products are a lot better than they were in 1962.
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Aug 03, 2017 02:56am
@Pawan K
And how is that a problem? Americans copied Germans, Russians copied the Germans too, Chinese copied from the Russians, and UK and French copied from the Americans...so what is the problem if the hardware is copied.
Always remember, they make it themselves, so even if its inferior in quality, they can make do with quantity since they produce this themselves!
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Aug 03, 2017 03:28am
@Sheraz india does need a look. They r well prepared industrial powerhouse not like us in Pakistan where China dumps old machines while bribing politicians
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Aug 03, 2017 01:18pm
@Sheraz I had a look at the webpage and found nothing threatening. Have a look at our 26th January parade in case you like such web news
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Aug 03, 2017 04:24pm
similar to the Nazi march of 1941
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Aug 03, 2017 09:40pm
Unbelievable! So perfect as if computer generated mathematically aligned.
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