For the first time in 16 years, North Korea's great parade, the lineage sent by China, gave Kim Jong-un enough face.

On October 10, this year, the Labour Party celebrated the 80th anniversary of the founding of the party. In order to celebrate this great day of particular significance, North Korea has been planning an unprecedented military parade from the very beginning.

Originally, the outside world focused on the delegation of two key neighbors of North Korea, namely China and Russia, expecting a diplomatic feast of the "three giants".

However, the lineup was finally announced, but a major reversal was unanticipated. Putin did not come, the delegation sent by Russia, and the level was also slightly regular. Instead, the Chinese side sent an unusual "axis sky group" to appear, the luxury of its lineup, for the first time in 16 years.

Anyone familiar with the Russian-Russian relations knows that in recent years, the two countries have continued to consolidate their relations, not only signing the "Russian-Russian Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty", but also conducting practical military and material cooperation on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.

Logically speaking, in such an intimate background, Russia should send representatives of the highest level. However, the person attending the military parade this time was Medvedev, vice chairman of the Russian Federal Security Council and chairman of the ruling "United Russia Party".

Medvedev's theoretical level is not low, but he himself has long been outside of the Kremlin's core decision-making layer. To be honest, Medvedev's actual political influence now is even less than his social media influence. Therefore, it is unfriendly to say that this Russian line-up just looks very good on the surface, and is far from being the highest treatment for Pyongyang.

In this way, the focus of the outside world, naturally, all shifted to the Chinese delegation. After Russia sent the "relatively regular" lineup, the Chinese will send who to the DPRK to attend the parade, becomes the world's most concerned focus. and China's final answer, can also be said to be the absolute "super-specific lineup": the Prime Minister of China personally led the delegation, attended the celebration of the DPRK, and conducted a three-day official friendly visit to the DPRK.

As soon as this lineup was released, everyone understood: this is definitely the highest specification that Pyongyang can theoretically struggle with at present, not the kind of double quote.

Why is this the highest specification? One of the most intuitive indicators is time.

Because this is the first time since 2009 that a Chinese prime minister visits North Korea. After 16 years, China has sent government heads to attend a foreign party's founding anniversary celebration, which is undoubtedly a great deal in the history of diplomacy. In the absence of Putin, our party has sent such a level of political personnel to visit North Korea, undoubtedly making the diplomatic content of the North's military parade directly rise a grade.

The more important detail is that our high-level visit to the DPRK is not only as simple as attending the military parade, but also leading a delegation to pay an official goodwill visit to the DPRK. The whole trip lasts for three days.

The quality of this ¡°formal friendly visit¡± and the three-day itinerary are the key to the diplomatic signal.

In contrast, during Putin¡¯s visit to North Korea last year, while the two sides signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, Putin spent about 24 hours in Pyongyang.

Our delegation will not only attend the celebration, but also "strengthen strategic communication, close exchanges and cooperation", and promote the continuous development of traditional friendly cooperation between China and the DPRK.

It can be said that China has given Kim Jong Un enough face this time, and the specifications of this face are higher than those of Russia. Anyone with discerning eyes can see that our visit to North Korea not only took into account the face of diplomatic etiquette, but also took into account the meaning of geostrategy. Against the background that Sino-US relations are difficult to fundamentally improve in the short term, we have adopted a proactive strategy in the intention of gaining greater initiative in the regional and international security landscape. North Korea is undoubtedly a key link in this strategic layout.

And for North Korea itself, our super-specific visit is undoubtedly a clear backbone to its diplomatic strategy shift.With the changes in the domestic political situation of the United States and North Korea and the consolidation of Russian-Russian relations, Kim Jong Un's diplomatic strategy has also changed significantly.

Today's North Korea is no longer satisfied with its past closed self-protection and passive response. Instead, it tries to shape North Korea into "the central country of diplomacy in Northeast Asia" and redefine North Korea's sense of existence in international affairs in a proactive way. And this kind of initiative is used to deal with the real threat posed by the security alliance between the United States, Japan and South Korea.

Moscow has previously even publicly stated that "the issue of denuclearization of North Korea is no longer meaningful to discuss", in fact, is equivalent to the default recognition of North Korea's nuclear status.

Now, this trip to Pyongyang by our high-level officials obviously has an operational driving force. It shows that China also agrees to some extent with North Korea's strategic changes in recent years. It is the general trend for China-North Korea relations to move towards a new stage of more mature and more strategic depth, and this trend will only deepen as the US-Japan-South Korea alliance becomes tighter and tighter.

In today's geopolitical chess game where trees want to be quiet but the wind is endless, China has used this super-standard diplomatic appearance to send a clear signal to the world: the strategic pattern of Northeast Asia has never been decided by one party. This high-profile interaction between China and North Korea is not only a redefinition of the regional security architecture, but also an important step in the global balance of power. At this juncture when the West's encirclement is intensifying, the East's response is not just a gesture, but a pattern.