What Does the CCP’s “Victory in the War of Resistance” Deceptive Military Parade Reveal

Chinese troops take part in marching drills. (Reuters Images)

[People News] Mainland China’s economy is on the brink of collapse, unemployment is everywhere, natural disasters are frequent, and people’s livelihoods are withering. Yet the CCP still squanders the people’s hard-earned resources to stage events like the so-called “September 3rd Military Parade, the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.” What is its real purpose?

Experts analyze that it is simply a way to flex its muscles, package itself as a so-called just force against Japan, deceive the world, mislead both domestic and international opinion, and further its ambitions of dictatorship and hegemony. Experts point out that in reality, the CCP was a force of Soviet infiltration in China: it expanded due to Japan’s invasion, relied on surrendered Japanese and Korean soldiers, and leaned on the Soviet military to seize power from the Nationalist government—acts even more sinister than Japan’s invasion itself. Under public pressure and Soviet demands, the CCP participated in a few behind-the-lines skirmishes, but key leaders like Peng Dehuai were later labeled “historical counterrevolutionaries” and brutally persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.

What really was the War of Resistance Against Japan? In historical terms, it refers to the war fought between the Republic of China and Japan from the 1930s to 1945, mostly on Chinese soil. In those 14 years, there were 22 major battles and 1,117 large-scale military engagements. The Nationalist army suffered 3,650,465 casualties, including 206 generals. The CCP in recent years has claimed that more than 70 of its generals died in the war, but historians have found that some of these figures were falsified by counting casualties from later civil war battles against the Nationalists.

Even CCP “princeling” Liu Yazhou once revealed: his father and six fellow villagers all survived seven years of resisting Japan, but when the civil war began, six of them died fighting the Nationalists. On August 16, 2025, Chiu Chui-cheng, spokesman for Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, remarked on the 80th anniversary of the war’s end, stressing that during the anti-Japanese war the so-called People’s Republic of China did not even exist. Yet the CCP regime continues to distort history, using fabricated narratives to claim Taiwan belongs to it, misleading the Chinese people, confusing the international community, and bolstering its “One China” principle.

The CCP’s audacity in rewriting history and stealing the Republic of China’s achievements is nothing new. For example, it has long falsely claimed participation in founding the United Nations. In 2015, the Chinese film The Cairo Declarationeven replaced Chiang Kai-shek with Mao Zedong on the poster, though Mao had nothing to do with the 1943 Cairo Conference. The CCP also claims credit for overthrowing the Qing dynasty to establish a republic. Diplomats like Lu Shaye have shamelessly distorted facts about the Cultural Revolution’s harm to Xi Jinping’s own family.

Why do CCP officials repeat lies until they seem true? Their aim is to mislead the younger generation and future populations—an ongoing cognitive war.

As a foreign force implanted in China by the Communist International—essentially its “Far East branch”—the CCP’s damage to China far exceeds that of the Japanese army. For over a century, under the pretext of war, political campaigns, “reforms,” or laws, it has destroyed nature, ruined culture, massacred citizens, sold out territory, and eroded morality and values. Its methods are insidious and multifaceted, its timeline longer, and worst of all, it manipulates Chinese people into destroying themselves without accountability. After 1949, the CCP executed countless Nationalist officers who had fought against Japan. The old saying from the 1920s and 30s that “the Communists are demons with fangs, blue faces, and red eyes” has been fully borne out by decades of CCP political campaigns.

Why did Mao Zedong not only refuse to demand reparations from Japan but even thank the Japanese army for its invasion? Why did he pardon the last Qing emperor Puyi and even appoint him a member of the national political advisory body? Because Japan’s invasion weakened the Nationalists, and Puyi’s puppet state in Manchuria provided bases for the Japanese army. Why did Mao rename the Republic of China into the People’s Republic of China? To confuse both the Chinese people and the world, and to steal the legacy of the Republic.

Now the CCP is staging the “80th Anniversary Victory Parade.” Reports say leaders from many countries are invited. Indeed, some nations, swayed by interest or lies, choose “forgetfulness” and “self-deception,” planting the seeds of future disaster.

Today’s CCP presents its lies in a more “sophisticated,” “polished,” and “subtle” way. On June 24, 2025, the State Council Information Office held a press briefing for the parade, where officials even acknowledged that “the Nationalist army also played a very important role,” and announced invitations to Nationalist veterans. Foreign media reported that the CCP would invite ten Nationalist veterans to attend, prompting some to feel “deeply honored” and “overjoyed.” International outlets praised the CCP as having “changed,” “become honest,” and even “progressed.” Some even suggested the Nationalists played only a supporting role in the war.

But this is precisely how the CCP refines its lies: retreating to advance, dressing deceit in sophistication, sustaining confusion and manipulation. Those who now feel honored will soon find themselves trapped in the CCP’s cognitive war. This is the CCP’s sinister intent: to destroy awareness in subtle ways while the world unknowingly accepts it.

If the world wants truth, peace, and freedom from the CCP’s threat, there is only one path: people must understand the CCP’s reality and its historical crimes, unite with righteous forces, spread The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and promote the movement to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Only in a world without the CCP can there be truth, clarity, and peace.