60th Anniversary National Day Parade
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Maggern
Junior Member
I'm guessing using physical civilian infrastructure it's easier to safeguard against bad people. Wireless communication is always vulnerable towards eavesdropping, hacking and jamming, while physical infrastructure is only vulnerable against physical attacks. Plus it's very reliable and tested.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
For those of you that doesn't care about the boring stuff tonight, the parade officially start at 10am beijing time. BUT at 10 am, what really starts is the flag raising ceremony, then you see Hu jintao make his rounds with the troops, then walk up to the top of tiananmen, then make his speech.. and finally the march starts, so can probably skip the first 10 minutes no problem.
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Although Im looking forward to this parade as much as you guys, I fail to understand that after having made a concious effort to do away with anniversary parades, why have they decided to bring it back. I can understand having a big celebration when certain milestones have been reached such as 50yrs, 75yrs 100yrs etc etc, but 60yrs?
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Don't they have one every ten years?
LostWraith
New Member
60 yrs is a big milestone in Chinese culture, which values 10 yr marks, not 25 yr marks. I'm pretty sure that the PLA is gonna have a parade every 10 years from now on.
vesicles
Colonel
Yeah, Chinese used 12 year cycle (the zodiac). And 5 of these 12-year cycles complete a big cycle, called Jia3Zi3. This is huge in Chinese culture. That's why the 60th birthday is THE biggest B-day for a Chinese person. Of course, if he/she can live to 120, that would be even bigger.
Also, this kind of parade is probably the biggest stage for a Chinese leader. And it could only happen once in their term as the president. I don't think Hu, or any other leader for that matter, would want to give this chance up.
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Gah, what is it with the Chinese media?
I was just watching the show live on TV, and for the ad break or something they showed their footage of PLA soldiers picking picking up weapons, with the Pirates of the Carribbean theme tune. What's up with that? They seem to like that tune a lot... I wonder if they have the rights to use the tune at all.
I was just watching the show live on TV, and for the ad break or something they showed their footage of PLA soldiers picking picking up weapons, with the Pirates of the Carribbean theme tune. What's up with that? They seem to like that tune a lot... I wonder if they have the rights to use the tune at all.