Nice pictures, looks more like preparing for ww3 :)

Wonderful show of might.whole world is watching with caution.

Quite funny to hear the reaction of Indian media over this Chinese ceremony. Where are the picture of Pakistani contingent which was part of the parade?

Extremely high standard of drill by the Chinese soldiers. Has to be a highly motivated Army. Congratulations PRC.

As expected from China, what a colorful and impressive display of its might. Long live China.

Where is our president?

Damn look at that ammunition stuff. Look like brand new toys.

"No matter how strong it becomes, China will never seek hegemony or expansion. It will never inflict its past suffering on any nation," Mr Xi said in his speech. Good!

Just look at the disciplined formation and march past of the soldiers...they looks like robots, even the faces looks all same. Pakistan presence was there with the president and a military contingent.

Awesome display very professional military.China-Russia-Pakistan friendship forever.

How beautiful the disciplined PLA soldiers are looking. We should request then to take over our govt too...

awesome display....quite impressed.

where is Mamnoon Hussein

Ironic timing of display of strength when the slide downward has just begun ...

chinkies and wepons

@GURPREET SINGH SABHARWAL (USA) Totally agree - somewhere would be the head of Central Bank of China who said that this is possibly the last Yuan devaluation in his life time only to repeat his act two more times in less than a week. A clear indication of how much understanding the Chinese have of their economic situation.

WOW! what a great country, what a great progress, what a great show of high-tech defense & offence military hardware. Congratulations to the government & peoples of China on their great achievements. Long live Pakistan China friendship.

Great to see a real power of Pakistan Alliance

Most of the fighting on the Chinese side was done by Chang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces, not by the forerunner of People's Liberation Army.

Love to China from Pakistan. Happy Independence Day.

China trying to manipulate history, the end of communist party is coming soon

@Taimoor Khan Similar is the reaction from BBC.BTW where is Pak contigent & Pak President? I can see Putin as if he is chief guest.

@Newshound41 Its true,but the history we are reading is written by the winner.

Chinese has the cutting edge tech. & latest weapons.. no doubts on that.. the only issue they have is---- Their Army/ Air Force or Navy has NOT fought even a single war in last 30-40 yrs..they don't have the experience to die & win the battles!... for that matter, I would regard Pakistan & Indian Armies as the best ones as they have that constant level of operational exposure & readyness! Even US has that constant exposure to warfare..Remember, Armies in bright color uniforms and with glitzy environment can be good for show-off but not in actual ground battles & quick wins!..

Well, they all look the same.

@Ali, Independence day?

There is a news of China decommissioning 300000 soldiers. Certainly economy is not doing good.

Now compare this with Indian and Pakistan army. I wonder if any country can fight with an army like this.

@Ali Russia is no friend of Pakistan

Some body must be so worried, I guess...

@Rahul ...Please refer to 1962..

Just remind me, why were the communists stabbing the Nationalist (now in Taiwan) when they were fighting the Japs. The airbrush must have been working all night, no?

@Rahul They lost the Vietnam War badly.

Spectacular pictures by DAWN, as usual. I saw the event on TV. The march pasts were simply awesome ! The sychronised movements of the soldiers were robotic in their perfection. This simple yet extraordinary collective discipline says much about the nation. Xi Jin Ping was just about the coolest MC's one ever saw and conducted his role with panache. The precision marching has brought China to the highest parade ground in the world. Pakistan is indeed lucky to have China as its friend !

Here's a little tit bit about Chinese Power. That car that he is riding on, engine is built by Ford Motor Co. in Russia under a different name and smuggled into China.

Chiang Kai-shek was the Chinese military leader who resisted Japanese army. Chinese suffered a heavy loss but Japanese were stopped by him. From chinese point of view he was the hero of WWII (rather should have been). But the irony is that he had to pay the price for having political differences with Communist party in China. All his achievements were deliberately suppressed and, forgotten fearing it would favor the Nationalist party. Sadly this national hero who once saved China, had to spend his last days in Taiwan. And now the same Communist party wants to take credit for his work!!! The people who cannot honor their heroes are talking about Peace and stability. We believed you China!!

@Keshav That may not be the only reason, weapons are modernized and less manpower is required for war.

Impressive... thats how you win half of the battle

Wonderful photos..

@khan - Don't you know, this big, disciplined PLA is always fear from little Japanese army. In spite of a big army, China did not snatch a disputed island from Japan.

@Zia - Your mathematics is too weak even you cant do a simple plus minus math. 1962 was before 40 years from today.

War is bad. Leads to loss of lives, destruction of natural and human resources. Peace is the way forward. Dialogue is a mighty weapon of mass construction.