News Source: The Mercury News
| 2 months ago
At the end of a gala Thursday celebrating Communist China's 60th anniversary, President Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, got down from their podium and joined hands with the dancers in Tiananmen Square. It was a symbolic gesture designed...
News Source: Truthdig
| 2 months ago
The 60th anniversary of Communist China was being celebrated this week, but 60 years ago was merely the victory over the Nationalist Chinese. The People’s Republic was proclaimed following the expulsion of the last Chinese Nationalist military...
News Source: USA Today
| 2 months ago
The colorful military parade held on China 's 60th anniversary of communist rule Thursday was a show of strength by a nation that has rarely been more confident, analysts say. China used the celebration to showcase its first military parade in a...
News Source: The Scotsman
| 2 months ago
Beijing behind goose-stepping troops as China celebrated 60 years of Communist rule with its biggest-ever military review – a symbol of its rapidly expanding global might. Yesterday's elaborate ceremony to mark the founding of the People's Republic...
News Source: The independent
| 2 months ago
A phalanx of soldiers displays the national flag, in a parade demonstrating China's powerful role in the world China marked six decades of Communist rule with a parade that had everything – a detachment of women soldiers carrying machine guns and...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 2 months ago
To symbolically show the world that China is ‘opening-up’ after 60 years of communist rule, Beijing invited 181 foreigners from 53 nations to participate, for the first time, in its civilian parade of 60 floats to celebrate the Republic’s 60th...