TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taipei resident Mu Chuhua caught some glimpses of China’s mighty military parade on YouTube on Wednesday. As she watched hypersonic missiles roll down Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue and troops march in lockstep, she didn’t feel like they posed a threat to Taiwan, the self-ruled island China claims as its own.

Mu, a 69-year-old retiree, said she saw the parade as simply a way for Chinese President Xi Jinping to “say thank you to the troops.”

“I thought it was quite normal,” she said. “It was very cool.”

China’s military parade commemorating the end of World War II and its victory over Japan was being watched internationally for insights into Beijing’s military advances and its show of unity with traditional U.S. adversaries such as Russia and North Korea.

But for many i

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