On September 3, 2015, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin strode out to the Gate of Heavenly Peace in the center of Beijing. Together with 12,000 troops of the People’s Liberation Army, they had gathered to commemorate Victory Day, the anniversary of the end of World War II in China –– or, as it is known in Communist China, the “Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression” or the “World Anti-Fascist War.”