Oct 1st, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
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If there was one message the Chinese authorities wanted to send with Thursday’s military march-past and pageant in Tiananmen Square, it was one of change.
Certainly the modern weaponry, the floats celebrating China’s achievements, and President Hu Jintao’s speech about a “new era of progress and development” projected that image.
But the grandiose event also reflected what has not changed in China.
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