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Yesterday, China held a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of World War II, and swore high and low that it wasn't flexing its military muscles in the process. Zhang Ming, vice minister of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a press conference last month that "if someone says this is flexing anything, it is a flexing of the spirit of peace by the Chinese people."
These sentiments made the recent release of a fairly polished CG video, almost six minutes in length and produced by an unidentified entity, showing how totally and comprehensively they'd kick US ass in a shooting war, seem a bit puzzling. Popular perception of the video outside of China is of a full-blown Sino-Smackdown, but there's actually more to it than meets the eye.
But first, a round of applause for another demonstration of the Chinese Communist Party's supreme knack for snappy nomenclature on the parade, which has been officially dubbed "The Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggressions and the World Anti-Fascist War." If you're curious, that title does, in fact, overshoot the Twitter character limit.
China's New Video About Kicking America's Ass Is More Than Meets the Eye | VICE News
I can't pull the video up here. You will have to see it at the link.
Propaganda. It's the best.
These sentiments made the recent release of a fairly polished CG video, almost six minutes in length and produced by an unidentified entity, showing how totally and comprehensively they'd kick US ass in a shooting war, seem a bit puzzling. Popular perception of the video outside of China is of a full-blown Sino-Smackdown, but there's actually more to it than meets the eye.
But first, a round of applause for another demonstration of the Chinese Communist Party's supreme knack for snappy nomenclature on the parade, which has been officially dubbed "The Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggressions and the World Anti-Fascist War." If you're curious, that title does, in fact, overshoot the Twitter character limit.
China's New Video About Kicking America's Ass Is More Than Meets the Eye | VICE News
I can't pull the video up here. You will have to see it at the link.
Propaganda. It's the best.
