Published 23:14 IST, October 1st 2019
Xi Jinping says 'No force' can shake China, on National Day
President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the massive military celebration of 70 years of Communist Party rule stating that "no force" in world can shake China.
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President Xi Jinping gave a speech at massive military celebration of 70 years of Communist Party rule, showed by a day of protest in seething Hong Kong that threatened to steal spotlight, stating that " force" in world can shake Chinese nation. Celebrations held at Tiananmen Rostrum where Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Xi extolled "Chinese dream" of national rejuvenation, and his long term wish to restore country’s perceived past glory.
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Wearing a "Mao suit" as he stood alongside party leers in Tiananmen Square, he said that re is force that can ever shake foundation of a nation as great as China, or can stop its people and Chinese nation forging ahe, Mao said before riding in an open-roof car to review troops.
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Xi's ability to maintain ecomic and political stability
Around 15,000 soldiers, tanks and high-tech weapons were rey to file past Tiananmen Square for an event celebrating China's journey from a country broken by war and poverty to being world's second-largest ecomy. A symbolic 70-gun salute was fired at square and red national flag was raised to begin festivities held under tight security, with ro closures and even a ban on flying kites.
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Some of most vanced new weapons, such as hypersonic drones and an intercontinental ballistic missile whose range encompasses United States me ir public debut among hundreds of pieces of military equipment and aircraft.
Apart from all celebrations, a clutch of challenges tests Xi's ability to maintain ecomic and political stability. am Ni, China researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney said that party hopes that this occasion will d to its legitimacy and rally support at a time of internal and external challenges.
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US tre war negotiations have dragged on, and African swine fever has raced through country's pig supply, sending pork prices soaring.
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19:26 IST, October 1st 2019