Beijing Review

Beijing Review is China's only national newsmagazine in English. It is published every week in Beijing, by the China International Publishing Group (CIPG). Launched in March 1958, Beijing Review reports and comments on the country's social, political, economic and cultural affairs, policy changes and latest developments. It also offers in-depth analysis on major regional and international events, and provides consulting and information services.

Beijing Review

Standing Together 80 Years On

Address at the Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of The Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War • Xi Jinping Beijing, September 3, 2025

DEFENDING PEACE • China’s V-Day parade highlights peace

PARADE SNAPSHOTS

WHAT WAR MEANS • In a recent interview with Beijing Review, Wang Chaoguang, former Director of the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, explained why victory over fascism should be commemorated eight decades on. Edited excerpts from the interview follow:

REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN • In his book Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945, Rana Mitter, British historian and a professor of U.S.-Asia relations at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, offers a deeply researched account of China’s war against Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 40s, as well as the country’s long-overlooked role in the global fight against fascism. In an exclusive interview with Beijing Review reporters Peng Jiawei and Tao Xing, Mitter discusses China’s place among the Allied forces, the trauma the war inflicted on ordinary lives, how the war reshaped the country’s international standing and why this chapter of history remains underrepresented—and why it matters now more than ever. Edited excerpts from their conversation follow:

THE FORGOTTEN ALLY’S SACRIFICE

COMMEMORATING VICTORY, CONFRONTING COMPLEXITIES

A GREAT GENERATION • A story of international solidarity in the fight for victory

LEGACY OF HUMANITY • Love guards life, truth defends peace

From History, for Peace

Better Together • SCO Summit 2025 charts new course for the group’s next decade of development

Safeguarding History, Shaping the Future • Honoring a shared WWII victory enhances mutual understanding between Chinese and American people

SOCIETY

WORLD

Reels of Remembrance • Chinese cinema as a witness to the war of resistance against Japanese aggression

A Symbol of Security