Monday 7 September 2015

Tale of two parades as ordinary Chinese barred from display

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Tale of two parades as ordinary Chinese barred from display
Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2015 - It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows: as 12,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and missiles rolled through Tiananmen Square in front of invited guests and foreign leaders, ordinary Beijing residents were barred from watching. Barricades were set up hundreds of metres from the parade marking 70 years since Japan's World War II defeat, and squads of police and blue-shirted volunte ... more


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