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CHINA celebrated the 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism in the Far East with a mass military parade yesterday.
Ten formations of soldiers marched through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in honour of 10 heroic units that fought in the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945.
One commemorated the five heroes of Mount Langya, who threw themselves off a cliff rather than surrender to encircling Japanese troops after holding off an offensive in September 1941.
Another paid tribute to a company of troops who used their bayonets to repel a Japanese attack during the communist-led Hundred-Regiment Campaign of 1940.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
STEPHEN BELL reports from a delegation that traced the steps of China’s socialist revolution from its first modest meetings to the Red Army’s epic 9,000km battle to create the modern nation that today defies every capitalist assumption
