Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un join him for military parade

Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the west

Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the west.

Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, are among dozens of world leaders attending the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the Japanese War of Aggression.

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