Grand Vietnam Parade, 50 years after the collapse of Sigon | world News

Ho Chi Minh: Vietnam on Wednesday extended its biggest celebration of the collapse of Cygon on its 50th anniversary, including Chinese troops for the first time, when Xi Jinping visited to paint Beijing as a more reliable partner than Washington.
Fighter jets and helicopters carrying flags flew overhead, showing state TV images, with a float founder leader Ho Chi Minh’s portrait and changed his name as a march in the city as part of a march in the city.
Thousands-many people are wearing T-shirts with Vietnamese flags-families of young children and elderly, stayed out on the streets overnight, shared food and waited for a demonstration.
The ceremony comes after half a century after the communist crashes to the US -backed South after crashed through the gate of the city’s President’s Tank and a painful shock to the American moral and military reputation.
75-year-old veteran Tran Van Troung said, “I am proud to release the south,” 75-year-old veteran Tran Van Troung had traveled to see-parade-wore clothes in military uniforms to the capital Hanoi to watch.
“But what went away, I have no hatred for those on the other side of the fight,” Troung told AFP. “We should join hands to celebrate the end of war.”
Around 13,000 people, including veterans, soldiers and members of the public, marched on Le Don Street of Ho Chi Minh City, a major entirety, which leads to the Freedom Mahal.
For the first time, more than 300 soldiers from China, Laos and Cambodia were participating in the spectacle.
According to state media, more than 300,000 Chinese soldiers were involved in bloody conflicts, providing vital anti-aircraft defense assistance and help with logistics and supply.
But this year is the first time Chinese soldiers have ever been part of large -scale remembrance.
Only four years after the end of the Vietnam War, China attacked the country, pushed back by Hanoi soldiers.
“I think Hanoi is indicating China that he recognizes China’s historical contribution,” said Zach Abuja, a professor at the National War College, Washington, which focuses on Southeast Asian politics.
“This is another way to indicate them: ‘Don’t think that our foreign policy is moving towards Americans.”
After years of the fight ending on 30 April 1975, the United States and Vietnam have rebuilt relations to become a strong trade partner.
But Hanoi also follows a “bamboo diplomacy” approach, which tries to live in good words with both Beijing and Washington.
The ceremony comes after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Hanoi this month.
Beijing is trying to keep himself in position as a stable option for Washington as Vietnam has faced 46 percent of American tariffs and US foreign aid cuts that can endanger war heritage programs.
Coordination, enthusiasm
After a war, who participated most of Vietnam, along with millions of people killed 58,000 American soldiers, the north victory expanded communist rule over the entire country.
Thousands of Vietnamese fled to the southern government, while others stayed and were again forced into education camps.
For many years, victory made the basis of the validity of the Communist Party, before its rights were associated with economic development and improving standard of living.
In an article published on Sunday on the government’s news portal, the top leader of the party for Lam laid an unusual emphasis on reconciliation.
He said that the Vietnamese people should get rid of themselves from “hatred, isolation or division … so that future generations no longer have to experience war”.
Most of the population was born after the end of the conflict, but many youth appeared excited on Tuesday night as a festive concert through the streets began to create music and huge crowds.
Social media users are estimating the parade for days after widespread coverage of rehearsal in media, which is fully controlled by the state in Vietnam.
Thong Dang, a physical education student at a university in Ho Chi Minh City, took Vietnamese National and Communist Party Hammer and Sickle flags from his 250 classmates.
“I will tell my future children about this incident,” he said before the beginning. “I am very proud and my family is also proud.”