The Chinese account of history doesn't add up, and the only EU rep at the Beijing parade, the Czech president, is interesting. Chinese communists lost few in the initial Japanese invasion then just like the Czechs who surrendered to Hitler then too.

The holidays in China have caught international media attention;

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/china-should-come-clean-about-its-history/2015/09/04/8d36c5d4-5254-11e5-b225-90edbd49f362_story.html

Contradicting the Chinese Communist Party’s claim that it led the Chinese resistance against Japan, it was the nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek that fought Japan and suffered heavy casualties.

http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-xi-lauds-czechs-only-western-leader-war-083144578.html

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday lauded the contribution of the Czech people during World War Two in a meeting with the country's head of state, the only Western leader to attend a massive military parade in Beijing this week.