TAIPEI, Taiwan—The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is spending more than $5 billion to commemorate a war victory in which it played only a minimal role, a Taiwanese government official said on Sept. 1, two days before Chinese leader Xi Jinping was set to oversee a military parade marking the anniversary.
Shen Yu-chung, deputy minister at Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, a government agency that handles China-related issues, said that Beijing’s military parade, scheduled to be held on Sept. 3 to celebrate Japan’s defeat in the Second Sino-Japanese War, would effectively cost more than 36 billion yuan ($5 billion).
“They are willing to spend more than NT$150 billion to hold a military exercise while neglecting China’s economic, labor, and social issues,” Shen said at an academic seminar in Taipei about the military parade. “I wonder what the Chinese people think about this situation.”…
Taiwan Official Questions China’s Spending Billions on Military Parade
