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Beijing, Sept. 3 — Chinese President Xi Jinping and foreign leaders walk toward the podium in Tiananmen Square before a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. /Photo: Xinhua/
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping joined leaders of other countries in a grand military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Wednesday morning to celebrate China's victory and the collective triumph of countries that defeated fascism 80 years ago.
Standing at the podium, the Chinese leader delivered a speech on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. He called on countries around the world to address the root causes of the war and prevent a repetition of historical tragedies.
According to Xi Jinping, common security can only be ensured when countries around the world treat each other as equals, live in harmony and support each other.
For the Chinese president, the commemorative event is not just a tribute to history, it reflects his vision of a future in which humanity can live peacefully in a more just, equal and prosperous world.
THE WORLD NEEDS JUSTICE
Before the parade, Xi and world leaders took turns shaking hands with Chinese veterans at the podium in Tiananmen Square. Minutes later, under Xi's watchful eye, troops from various units of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) marched across the vast square.
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with military veterans at the Tiananmen Square podium on September 3 in Beijing. /Photo: Xinhua/
He had the same look in May as he watched PLA troops march across Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War. Soon after, Xi, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders, laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall, observing a minute of silence for those who died fighting fascism.
In anticipation of his trip to Russia, the Chinese leader published an opinion piece in Rossiyskaya Gazeta entitled “Lessons from the Past for the Sake of the Future.” In it, he wrote: “The world needs justice, not hegemony.”
May 9, Moscow. Chinese President Xi Jinping lays flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier along with other leaders after the ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War. /Photo: Xinhua/
His appeal has historical roots. In 2017, while visiting the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Shanghai, Xi lingered before three images that captured China’s suffering more than a century ago: a cartoon from the late Qing dynasty showing foreign powers carving up China; a chart of the massive reparations China was forced to pay; and Karl Marx’s trenchant critique of China’s isolationist complacency at the time.
"How much humiliation. How much shame. China at that time was a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered," Xi Jinping noted.
The end of the Great Anti-Fascist War, or World War II, created the conditions for a rebirth of international order. From the ruins, the United Nations emerged in 1945, with its Charter enshrining the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention, and peaceful settlement of disputes. This was a significant departure from the age-old law of the jungle, according to which “might makes right.”
This year, as the UN marks its 80th anniversary, Xi Jinping called for the international organization to be revitalized in the new environment so that it can serve as a major platform for countries to coordinate their actions and jointly solve problems.
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on August 30, Tianjin. /Photo: Xinhua/
His message also touched on some of the pressing issues facing the world order today. As Xi Jinping noted, unilateralism, hegemonism, as well as bullying and coercive practices, seriously undermine peace, justice and equality in the world.
Xi Jinping made his views clear. “The strong should not bully the weak,” he said. “Decisions should not be made by simply showing force or waving fists. Selective multilateralism should not be our choice.”
Under Xi Jinping's leadership, China has stepped up global peace efforts by adhering to the principles of true multilateralism, participating in UN peacekeeping missions, promoting the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Convention on Countering Extremism, mediating reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, supporting the establishment of the Friends of Peace Group on the Ukraine crisis, and participating in the establishment of the International Mediation Organization (IMO) in Hong Kong with 32 countries.
The International Mediation Organization building in Hong Kong, May 30. /Photo: Xinhua/
“China will never seek hegemony and does not believe in a zero-sum game,” the Chinese leader said. “Such notions have never been part of China’s cultural DNA, and it has no such ambitions.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva once noted Xi Jinping's heightened sense of justice.
He told the Chinese leader: “You are an inspiration for the profound changes that humanity must strive for – to talk more about peace than war, to cooperate more than compete, and to create more than destroy.”
LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND
Xi Jinping believes that “only when countries develop together can true development be achieved.”
Last year, in Rio de Janeiro, he joined world leaders at the G20 summit, whose theme, “Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet,” aimed to combat persistent inequalities in global development.
In 2016, the Chinese leader chaired the G20 summit in Hangzhou, which for the first time placed development at the center of the group's macroeconomic policy coordination.
Speaking about development experience, Xi Jinping told his counterparts in Rio de Janeiro: “China’s history is proof that developing countries can eradicate poverty.”
In 2020, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China, the world's largest developing country, won the fight against absolute poverty, a full decade ahead of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
“If China can do it, then other developing countries can do it too,” Xi Jinping assured.
Poverty alleviation has been a central focus of the Chinese leader's more than 40 years of service, from county and city posts to provincial and national leadership. "I have devoted most of my energy to this," he once said.
1989, Ningde, Fujian Province. Xi Jinping, then secretary of the CPC Ningde County Committee, participates in a canal reconstruction project. /Photo: Xinhua/
The Chinese leader has championed a range of poverty-eradication initiatives, including juncao technology, which uses grass to grow edible mushrooms, feed livestock and prevent soil erosion. He began promoting the technology in countries in the South Pacific, Africa and South America while still a provincial official.
Part of this unprecedented journey is described in “Poverty Alleviation,” a collection of speeches, articles and interviews given by Xi Jinping from 1988 to 1990, during his time in Ningde, Fujian Province, southeast China.
In 2023, the Uzbek edition of this collection was published. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev wrote a foreword to it, “A Real Chinese Miracle.”
With a clear understanding of global problems, Xi Jinping traced the root cause of the turbulence of economic globalization to the lack of inclusive growth. In characterizing the contradictions of the modern world, he quoted Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Economic globalisation has struggled in recent years, with the gap between the Global North and South and the technology divide becoming more pronounced. The gap between rich and poor is widening, with 60 per cent of the world's people poorer, or nearly 5 billion people, according to a study by the British charity Oxfam published last year.
“Development,” Xi Jinping noted, “is the inalienable right of all countries, not the privilege of a select few.” This explains why he advocates a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.
June 3, 2013, Costa Rica – Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with members of a local farmer's family during a visit with his wife Peng Liyuan. /Photo: Xinhua/
A few months after taking office as China’s president in 2013, Xi Jinping made a state visit to Costa Rica. During his tour of the country, he visited a coffee farm. Sipping freshly brewed coffee, the Chinese leader said, “I think more coffee can be exported to China.”
That statement was followed by a broader promise. China will keep its doors open and share the dividends of development, Xi promised. “Welcome aboard China’s development express,” the Chinese president has said repeatedly.
Also in 2013, Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative. More than a decade later, its results are already visible. Freight trains now run between Chinese cities and European capitals. Modern railways and Kenya’s revived ports are changing the landscape of East Africa.
In addition to deepening economic ties, Xi Jinping is promoting a model of governance that breaks with what he sees as an outdated relic of colonialism, the Wall Street Journal once commented.
The Chinese leader has consistently maintained that development is the key to achieving this goal – a belief shaped by his own life experience. In the late 1960s, Xi Jinping, as a member of the “educated youth,” was sent to a poor village in Shaanxi Province, northwest China.
“What I wanted most,” he recalled decades later in a speech in the American city of Seattle, “was for the villagers to be able to eat plenty of meat.”
Today, Xi Jinping leads China along the path of modernization. As a leader with a global vision, he also hopes that China can share this path with all countries.
“On the path to the well-being of all mankind, no country or nation should be left behind,” Xi Jinping believes.
FAIR ORDER
At the just-concluded SCO summit in Tianjin, Xi Jinping put forward the Global Governance Initiative.
A group photo is taken of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan before a banquet to welcome foreign guests attending the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, Aug. 31. (Photo: Xinhua)
The purpose of this initiative is to “join forces with all like-minded countries to resolutely uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and to create a more just and equitable system of global governance,” he explained.
Xi Jinping's proposal reflects his keen awareness of the profound changes that are reshaping the global landscape.
“The collective rise of the countries of the Global South,” the Chinese leader noted, “is the hallmark of the great transformations around the world.” He pledged that China will always “keep the Global South in its heart” and remain inextricably linked with it.
In April 2015, in the Indonesian city of Bandung, once called the “Paris of Java,” past and present came together.
Emerging from the 19th-century Savoy Homann Hotel, leaders from nearly 100 countries walked to the Independence Building, retracing the steps of the generation that defied colonial rule 60 years ago.
Xi Jinping and then Indonesian President Joko Widodo led the procession. It was a living echo of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first meeting of Asian and African countries liberated from colonial rule, which is now considered a landmark event in the emergence of the Global South.
Through perseverance and great sacrifice, emerging markets and developing countries have managed to gain independence and throw off the yoke of colonialism. These countries are seeking development paths that suit their national conditions, rather than following models imposed from outside. “Everything we do, we do to provide a better life for our people,” a Chinese leader once said.
Under the influence of Xi Jinping's global vision, the "Bandung spirit" is rapidly becoming a reality – developing countries are not speaking out as isolated voices but as a united force.
The historic expansion of BRICS and the creation of forums linking China with Africa, Latin America, the Arab world and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bear the imprint of Xi Jinping's vision, offering countries in the Global South channels to coordinate and amplify their voice in global affairs.
In April 2025, during a visit to the BRICS New Development Bank (the first multilateral bank initiated and led by developing countries) in China's financial hub Shanghai, the Chinese president called the bank's establishment a pioneering effort by countries in the Global South to join forces to improve global governance.
The headquarters of the BRICS New Development Bank is seen in Shanghai, June 17, 2022. /Photo: Xinhua/
The origins of his worldview can be traced back to his youth. He studied The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, and other Marxist classics, laying the intellectual foundation for what he later described as his unshakable belief: “Marxism is vast and profound; ultimately, it aims at the liberation of humanity.”
Decades later, as humanity faces changes unseen in a century, Xi Jinping continues to ponder the world: “What has happened to the world and how should we respond?”
He first proposed the idea of a community with a shared future for all mankind in Moscow during his first overseas visit as China’s president. Two years later, at the UN headquarters in New York, the Chinese leader laid out in detail his thoughts on the creation of this community, which includes partnership, security, development, inter-civilizational exchanges, and the creation of an ecosystem.
Xi Jinping's vision of building a community with a shared future for all mankind reminded Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of an aphorism by the famous ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius.
“Among the four seas, all men are brothers,” Anwar Ibrahim said in Chinese at a reception held for Xi Jinping in Putrajaya in April this year.
“President Xi Jinping is known as a capable political leader, as an economist, but more than that, and more importantly, as a great man with a strong, clear vision and understanding of the values of civilization,” he said.
From 2021 to 2023, Xi Jinping put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative. Along with the Global Governance Initiative, they aim to strengthen and improve the existing international system.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon noted that Xi Jinping is a great leader with a deep understanding of history and a broad global vision. “Many of the global initiatives he has proposed contribute to the advancement of peace and human progress,” he said. –0–
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