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Kim Jong Un

Lesson from Hungary

Recent times have seen “strongmen” leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mohammad Bin Salman, Paul Kagame, Kim Jong Un etc.

Show of strength

In the first week of September 2025, China hosted two dozen world leaders for a huge Victory Day Military parade in Tiananmen Square to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and Japan’s surrender.

Cold Front

The military parade in Beijing was meant to commemorate an old victory, but it became something far more consequential: a carefully staged display of political power, designed to re-order perceptions of who leads the world’s shifting alliances.