Celebration of strength in unity shows future path: China Daily editorial

As predicted, among all the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was the large-scale military parade in Beijing on Tuesday that grabbed the world's attention. To some, it would appear to be the only thing that Beijing did to celebrate that momentous historical event. They simply watched it through their own ideological prisms and saw it as proof of the rising military might and geopolitical ambition of a country different from their own.

This was evident in the reports of Western media, which, ignoring the context, felt no qualms about using the occasion to hype up a "China threat" focusing on new weapons such as a "nuclear-capable missile designed to evade US defenses".