Xi Jinping asks the world to choose ‘war or peace.’ Which direction is China headed?

The optics could not have been more stark as Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived at a massive military parade in Beijing flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – with some two dozen other leaders including from Iran, Pakistan, Belarus and Myanmar trailing behind.Jumbotrons at Tiananmen Square beamed the image to the 50,000 people gathered under the beating