CHINA – China will hold the 80th World War 2 commemoration event (Victory Day Parade) next week (September 3), at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square that’ll be accompanied by a massive military parade, and an attendance by world leaders.

Chinese president Xi Jinping sent invitations to various leaders and below are the names of those who’ll attend the event:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin
• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian
• Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko
• Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
• Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
• Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico
• Pakistan‘s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif
• Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni
•  Vietnamese President Luong Cuong
• Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith
• Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
• Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
• Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh
• Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu
• Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
• Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
• Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
• Tajik President Emomali Rahmon
• Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov
• Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov
• Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso
• Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa
• Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez
• Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing

Beijing officially refers to the 1937-1945 period as the “War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression” and considers it a crucial part of the broader “World Anti-Fascist War.”