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"Xi Jinping has made institutional modernization and institutional reform a major emphasis for his tenure," as chairman of the CCP, said Mark Cozad, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official now with RAND. "The parade plays to where the [People's Liberation Army] has been very successful — technological modernization. They get to show their wares, and they get to show them to an international community."
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To fake its anti-Japanese feat, the CCP claimed massive Japanese casualties because of this campaign, as many as 46,000, but Japan’s casualty records suggest the real number was less than 500.
