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China has hosted a massive military parade along Changan Avenue in central Beijing, showcasing the country’s latest and mostadvanced weapons to commemorate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II.

PresidentXi Jinping delivered a speech from the Tiananmen rostrum and then inspected the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops from a parade car. It was the third major military parade in Tiananmen Square that Xi is overseeing as president.

World leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leaderKim Jong-un, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim were seated on the rostrum, along with serving and former top officials and generals.