Helen Clark and John Key, two former prime ministers of New Zealand, are set to attend a major military parade in Beijing, joining Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung Un.
As reported by the Post’s Thomas Manch, the parade will commemorate the “world Anti-Fascist War”, as its known in China, or the 80-year commemoration of the Japanese invasion of China from 1937 to 1945.
New Zealand diplomats based in Beijing will be officially representing the government at the military parade. Government ministers were not invited, the Post reported.
North Korea’s Kim, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and the leaders of Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Belarus, and Cuba, among others, will also head to Beijing.
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New Zealand diplomats based in Beijing will be officially representing the government at the military parade. Government ministers were not invited.
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