BBC correspondents respond to Beijing’s strength

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stood shoulder to shoulder publicly on Wednesday, ahead of a massive military parade in Central Beijing.

The parade, which celebrated 80 years after winning China over Japan in World War II, saw that Beijing opened a number of new military equipment, including the new nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, a new road rocket to deliver hyperguk weapons, new laser weapons.

This happens at a time when the XI seeks to design Beijing’s authorities on the international stage – not only as the second largest economy in the world, but also as a counterweight for the US, as Trump’s tariffs clutched the world economic and political order.

Four BBC correspondents evaluate the value of the parade on Wednesday – what it means, why it is important and what the spectacle tells about the “new world order”.

Laura Bicker, Chinese correspondent

One of the most durable images of this military parade happened before the first gun was launched.

President SI, who welcomes North Korea Kim Jong Un with a long handshake, and then moved to the greeting of Russia Vladimir Putin, before all three went together to watch the parade, was a pure political theater.

It was the first time all three leaders were seen in public together and they really chose their moment.

But it was this meeting, not just the weapons and troops at the exhibition, caught the attention of Donald Trump.

Trump posted the truth socially earlier, accusing the XI plot against America with others. The Chinese leader said in this speech that his country is on the right of history.

The parade on Wednesdays was a choreographed spectacle of accuracy, strength and patriotism.

Even the choir stood in perfect rows when they sang: “Without the Communist Party there is no modern China.”

The goose troops sounded past the unison, and every strike of the land echoed in the stands of 50,000 guests in Tiananmen Square.

Then a large weapon came, and the crowd reached for the phones. New ICBM, laser weapons, even robotic dogs.

The parade ended on the crowd, which is fond of past thousands of pigeons and balloons were released into the sky above the capital.

This display, which celebrated the 80th anniversary since the end of World War II, was not just a look where China was or how far China came.

He demonstrated where China goes: he plays the role of the world leader, ready to speak next to the two most authorized leaders in the world.

And he has his feet, the military, which is being built for the west.

James Land, diplomatic correspondent

The Chinese screening about geopolitical and now military power this week is unlikely to surprise Western leaders.

President SI has long sought to put himself in the center of the new world order – one that replaced the destroyed global systems created after the Second World War.

But two things will send shivers down western diplomatic spikes.

One of them is the speed at which China fills the vacuum left by the US withdrawal from international norms and institutes.

The world order led by Chinese, where territorial integrity and human rights are estimated less than raw power and economic development, may be uncomfortable for many Western countries.

The fact that the US tough tariffs have pushed India, the world’s largest democracy, so fast in the warm hug of China, the world’s largest autocracy is also concerned.

One of the small smallest for the West is that the so -called “Axis Axis” at the Beijing exhibition is not united – and India, in particular, which was not presented on the parade on Wednesday, is more diverged with China on territorial and other disputes.

The bottom line is that the economic nationalism and destructive diplomacy of America, Donald Trump gives China a huge diplomatic opportunity – and this is one XI that grabs hands with its summit and parade.

Steve Rosenberg, Russian editor

All diplomacy (and optics) in China this week was designed to send a clear message to Trump administration.

So you want to make America big again, right? This is America first, isn’t it? Well, then we offer an alternative to the US leadership.

That is why we saw the leaders of China, Russia and India, who smiled together at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Sunday and Monday.

That is why Vladimir Putin called Xi Jinping a “real friend” and the Chinese leader called his Russian counterpart a “old friend” earlier this week.

That is why Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un appeared together at a military parade on Wednesday.

In short: in the geopolitical universe, different powers are agreed as counterbalance to American domination.

This does not mean that all these countries and leaders are on the same wavelength. They don’t. The differences remain.

But the direction of travel is clear.

As a title in Komsomolskaya Pravda, she announced this week, citing Russia, China and India: “We will build a new world.”

Frank Gardner, Security correspondent

From massive, underwater torpedoes to the latest laser weapons, which knocks down drones, the last military parade of China will be defeated and analyzed by the Pentagon experts and the defense officials around the world.

PLA launched a wide military modernization program that saw it caught up – and in some areas – overtaking the US. Hypersonic missiles that travel more than five times the sound speed is one area where China is leading the world.

Dr. Sidhart Kaushal, a leading rocket expert at the London Analytical Center of Russia, emphasizes YJ -17 – Glide Hyperson car – and YJ -19, hypersonic cruise missile.

China is also invested in artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons. One example of this is AJX002: a giant, 60-foot (18 m), underwater nuclear drone.

Chinese nuclear arsenal – numbering in hundreds of rockets – still lags behind those in Russia and the US, which both have thousands, but it rapidly increases in size, as well as searching for innovative ways of shipping.