Miles Yu appears on CBS to discuss the message Beijing’s military parade tried to project, problems the People’s Republic of China faces on the global stage, why Xi Jinping is the only PRC leader to have held a World War II victory parade, why trolling is a good word to describe the parade, and Russia-China relations.
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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)