John Batchelor 09-03 segment 5.mp3 Guests: Gordon Chang and General Blaine Holt, US Air Force General, retired. China's Historical Revisionism and Autocratic Alliances Gordon Chang and General Blaine Holtdiscuss China's military parade, led by Xi Jinping

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John Batchelor 09-03 segment 5.mp3 Guests: Gordon Chang and General Blaine Holt, US Air Force General, retired. China's Historical Revisionism and Autocratic Alliances Gordon Chang and General Blaine Holtdiscuss China's military parade, led by Xi Jinping, which falsely claims Chinese victory over Japan in WWII, omitting the US and Allied contributions. Holt views the parade as theater for a crumbling Belt and Road Initiative, not a united front. They note India's absence from the parade due to animosity with China. Despite appearances, Putin and Kim Jong-un also have underlying animosity towards Xi Jinping, making their alliance one of expediency, not unity.

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0:30.1	This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.
0:36.7	I welcome Gordon Chang, my colleague and friend. We look to Blaine Holt,
0:42.4	U.S. Air Force General retired to comment on a rewriting of absolute reality in the 20th century. This is beyond Orwellian imagination.
0:49.8	Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts his country's largest ever military parade as he seeks to recast
0:56.8	Beijing as a custodian of a post-U.S. international order at the time of deep geopolitical
1:04.2	uncertainty. More than 20 world leaders, including Russia's Putin, and reclusive North Korean leader
1:10.7	Kim, will gather in Beijing for September 3rd
1:14.8	Victory Day, marking 80 years since Japan's defeat at the end of World War II.
1:21.7	Gordon, I'm humbled by the scale of this falsehood. China Communist Party claiming that it defeated Japan.
1:31.2	No mention of the U.S., no mention of Australia or the Commonwealth, no mention of the
1:38.5	determination of the United Nations called by FDR to defeat the access powers. No mention whatsoever.
1:47.4	Is this successful history writing in China? Is this the quality of thinking that's going on there
1:52.3	right now? Or is this particular to Xi Jinping's vision? This is especially particular to Xi Jinping. The Communist Party of China
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