2025-08-20
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This is the Beijing Hour.
Examining the events that impact and shape China and the rest of the world.
This is the Beijing Hour, one hour of news and information brought to you every weekday.
Now, here's your host, Shane Biggum, with you on this Wednesday, August 20th, 2025.
You're listening to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program, the Chinese president, also general secretary of the CPC,
is in Shenzhen to celebrate the 60th founding anniversary of the Autonomous Region,
also known as Tibet.
China will showcase new generation armaments during its Victory Day parade on September 3rd.
India's prime minister has hosted China's foreign minister and said the two countries are partners and not rivals.
In business, China keeps its lending rate steady for a third month.
And today we have part four of the Unyielding East, China's World War II relics.
A collection of stories about the nation and its people that stood their ground against fascism.
Today we unravel the secret atrocities committed by Japan's Unit 731 during World War II and the lifelong trauma that victims have suffered.
Now the day's top stories.
General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee is in Shenzhen to attend celebrations marking 60 years of its founding as an autonomous region.
He'll attend a meeting for the special occasion in Lhasa on Thursday.
The southwestern highland region, otherwise known as Tibet, was founded in September of 1965.
Once one of the nation's least developed areas, the region,