What Did the September 3 Parade Mean?

Welcome to the Cynica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we'll look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what's happening in China's politics. Foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each week for in depth conversations that shed more light. And bring less heat to how we think and talk about China. I'm Kaiser Gua, coming to you this week from Beijing. It's great to be back in town.

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Bill, I will be talking to both Joe Boa, the senior colonel, retired of the People's Liberation Army, who is a frequent commentator on Chinese military affairs. Civic listeners will quite probably know him from his many television appearances. He is now a senior fellow at CISS, the Center for International Security and Strategy, at Qinhua University. I will also be talking to Rana Mitter, who has been on Seneca several times and will be familiar to our listeners, author of two excellent books on the Sun of Japanese war, uh, both of which I've discussed with him every time there's a parade, we have him on. He's formerly at Oxford and now at Harvard's Kennedy School. It will come as no surprise at all that the subject for today's discussion will be the military parade held in Beijing on Wednesday, September third, commemorating, of course, the Japanese surrender that finally ended World War Two eighty years ago. We will touch on some of the events leading up to the parade as well, including, of course, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Tianjin. So please enjoy this double header. Senior Colonel Zhou Bua, now retired, has for some time been one of the most interesting commentators on Chinary affairs, in part because of his extensive international experience, combined, of course, with his long career in the PLA. He served in the Guangzhou

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