China To Showcase Modern Weapons At Massive Military Parade Today

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are expected to flank President Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing on Wednesday morning, in a historic moment capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding against the West. China will showcase its military prowess with troops marching in formation, flypasts and displays of high-tech fighting gear at the showpiece extravaganza centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to mark 80 years since the end of World War II. Millions of Chinese people were killed during a prolonged war with imperial Japan in the 1930s and 40s, which became part of a…