Mao must have loved it.
Have not been able to find any pix on the net yet, but it can't be long.
Having said that, the night-time show was pretty amazing. No one does colossal-scale pageantry like the Chinese. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
Through the SPIEGEL link above you can access more pictures.
China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing's historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or uniform, with floats and dancers mingling with soldiers and military hardware. Collected here are photographs of the once-in-a-decade National Day parade in Beijing, and of others commemorating the anniversary elsewhere.
it was a hyper-phallic circle jerk
Some Chinese guy:
"a socialist China that faces the future is standing tall and firm in the East". Repeating Chairman Mao's speech on the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mr Hu added: "The Chinese people have stood up!"
"a socialist China that faces the future is standing tall and firm in the East".
Repeating Chairman Mao's speech on the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mr Hu added: "The Chinese people have stood up!"
