原题为：Parade effectively demonstrates China's status to the world
原载于：中国日报网，9月3日
President Xi walks to the the Tian'anmen Rostrum accompanied by Russian
President Vladimir Putin, left, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye,
right. [Photo/Xinhua]
As the world system transforms from
unipolarity to multipolarity, new major powers and political paradigms emerge.
China, as a rising nation, is eager to seek its identity and understanding both
home and abroad.
Following Russia’s footsteps, China will hold its military
parade this Thursday to commemorate the end of WWII and has become the focus of
the Western media. It highlights the patriotism and nationalism to strengthen
national awareness and identity and meanwhile it proves the security guarantee
for the state strategies like “Chinese Dream”, “One Belt and One Road ”and so
on.
With the Chinese economy maturing, Chinese citizens have been
going abroad to travel in massive numbers. It’s part of the reflection
of China’s “soft power”. In order to deepen the image of China being a
responsible country to maintain world stability and telling the Chinese story,
China attempts to express its decision of taking the responsibility for world
politics by means of some important events to emphasize the importance of
protecting the world principles of international laws formulated in the UN
after the Second World War.
However, it seems to be that the West has not so far recognized
the peaceful rising of China, and at the moment the Western media still
insist on painting China as a threat to rationalize
the US “rebalancing” policy of “Pivot to Asian-pacific region”.
Therefore, in order to exert its “soft power” to influence
domestic and overseas public opinion, the military parade would be one of the
effective ways for emerging countries like China and Russia to win its people’s
understanding of the state policy and at the same time to broadcast themselves
to the world especially the inner societies of Western countries which it
usually has no access to.
A military parade staged at a meaningful time could effectively
signal its own national strategies to its neighbors and other countries in the
world. China and Russia are the only two nations with the requirements and
capacity to do so. That’s the reason to some extent why China and Russia choose
parades as their commemorative style.
A parade is just a ceremony for those emerging countries to win
its due international credit and respect. Undoubtedly, the Western media will
throw their biases over it and take it as a threat to peace. Therefore, China
must arrange its schedule carefully and spare no effort in countering the
misinterpretations out of innocent or intentional reasons.
Wu Fei, Professor of JiNan University,
Senior Research Fellow of Charhar Institute
Hu Feng-Ying, Ph.D of MGIMO University, Postdoctoral
Researcher of Communication and State Governance Center of Fudan University