European leaders have been thrown into a diplomatic quandary by China’s invitation to a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war.
The September 3 display, in which heavy weaponry is likely to feature, is set to pass by Beijing’s symbolically resonant Tiananmen Square, where tanks rolled in during a bloody massacre in 1989.
Diplomats are not only wary of lending international credibility to an event that could be read as an effort to parade Chinese military strength rather than commemorate war dead. They also fear taking sides between China — for most a key trading and investment partner — and Japan.
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