Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Putin and Kim join him for military parade

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/china-military-parade-xi-jinping-appears-with-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un

Xi Jinping said the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, joined by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in a show of defiance to the west.

Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, were among dozens of world leaders who attended the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

“Today, humanity is again faced with the choice of peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum,” Xi told the crowd of more than 50,000 spectators, adding that the Chinese people “firmly stand on the right side of history”.

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When an authoritarian offers "peace" they mean "everyone lets me do what I want"...

That's not peace, it's waging war on their own citizens and usually a couple neighboring countries.

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Nothing is more peace than:

  • a military parade showing of weapons capable of ending the world
  • having a guy who has started and still cotinues the biggest war of 21st century
  • having another guy who runs the most brutal and isolated country in the world who's also contributing to the said war

It's just blatantly giving

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

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They are whiny babies who don't even trust each other. They want their way with everything and not getting it is a crime to them.

There is true evil in this universe.

Those that do not value the life of other intelligent beings as though they were themselves are in this category.

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checks dictionary

He means surrender or fight.

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Feeling kinda depressed after watching this ngl

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Hmm yes, nothing more pieceful than having 3 ruthless leader standing side by side. Let us have piece.

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Putin clearly doesn't want peace which doesn't leave many options.

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Authoritarians define "peace" as "you stop fighting back".

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Don't know why you were downvoted, but you are 100% correct.

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Don't know why you were downvoted

FYI : all comments have been downvoted. Twice to be exact. Thats not a coincidence.

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Love how they make all the decisions for us

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Comments in World News@quokk.au

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Too bad our demented rapist was on his deathbed again, he’d love to stand on the sidelines and applaud them.


The US president clapped as Putin made his way to greet him on the tarmac at the airbase

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I love that title. It so clearly states on which side those leaders stand.

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Those generally are the two options, yes.

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