TAIPEI, Taiwan—The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is spending more than $5 billion to commemorate a war victory in which it played only a minimal role, a Taiwanese government official said on Sept. 1, two days before Chinese leader Xi Jinping was set to oversee a military parade marking the anniversary.
Shen Yu-chung, deputy minister at Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, a government agency that handles China-related issues, said that Beijing’s military parade, scheduled to be held on Sept. 3 to celebrate Japan’s defeat in the Second Sino-Japanese War, would effectively cost more than 36 billion yuan ($5 billion).
