Who were the foreign leaders at China's military parade? A TV screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arriving for a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, at a waiting room for media personnel in Beijing, China September 3, 2025. REUTERSOver 25 foreign heads of state or government attended a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping seeks to cast the country as the custodian of a post-US international order. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were the guests of honour, and flanked Xi at the parade. Others who attended were:Armenian Prime Minister Nikol PashinyanAzerbaijani President Ilham AliyevBelarusian President Alexander LukashenkoCambodia's King Norodom SihamoniCuban President Miguel Diaz-CanelVietnamese President Luong CuongIndonesian President Prabowo SubiantoIranian President Masoud PezeshkianKazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart TokayevKyrgyzstan President Sadyr JaparovLaos President Thongloun SisoulithMalaysian Prime Minister Anwar IbrahimMaldives President Mohamed MuizzuMongolian President Ukhnaagiin KhurelsukhMyanmar military chief Min Aung HlaingNepali Prime Minister KP Sharma OliPakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz SharifRepublic of the Congo President Denis Sassou NguessoSerbian President Aleksandar VucicSlovak Prime Minister Roberto FicoTajikistan President Emomali RahmonTurkmenistan President Serdar BerdymukhamedovUzbekistan President Shavkat MirziyoyevZimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa
