SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade of military might in Beijing on Wednesday, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West.

In unprecedented scenes, Xi shook both their hands and chatted with the pair as they walked down a red carpet by Tiananmen Square, with Putin to Xi’s right and Kim to his left.

The event, ostensibly to mark 80 years since the end of World War II, was a chance for Xi to put on an extravaganza to showcase China’s military prowess and bring together friendly leaders to send a message to the rest of the world.

Kicking off the parade, President Xi warned the world was still ‘faced with a choice of peace or war’, but said China was ‘unstoppable’.

China’s enormous new intercontinental ballistic missile DF-5C, with a range of 20,000 kilometres, counted prominently among the tonnes of hardware on display.

The heavily choreographed event drew an acidic response from President Donald Trump who accused the three leaders of plotting against the United States.

‘Give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America,’ he wrote on Truth Social…”