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While Biden is channeling his inner leprechaun in Ireland.
China expands wartime military draft to include veterans and college students
Expert warns China is either ‘tone-deaf’ or ‘messaging’ with announcement of conscript policy change
By Caitlin McFall | Fox News April 15, 2023:
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China has positioned these changes as a necessary step to modernize the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and to bolster its combat effectiveness.
However, adding the nation’s most educated as priority draftees runs counter not only to traditional Western conscription practices, but China’s as well.
Chinese honor guard arrive for the welcoming ceremony for French President Emmanuel Macron and China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing on April 6, 2023.Chinese honor guard arrive for the welcoming ceremony for French President Emmanuel Macron and China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing on April 6, 2023. (LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)
“It fits into the context of PLA modernization,” Heino Klinck, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia and military attaché to China, told Fox News Digital. “The PLA has historically been a military based on conscripts from the countryside. I think Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to further bolster his communist bona fide by ensuring that all segments of Chinese society are a part of the national military buildup.”
Several of China’s top universities already have military departments included in their institutions where students can combine their studies with military training.
One top official in China’s Central Military Commission told a PLA newspaper this week that colleges and universities play an essential role in recruiting and that there is a particular interest in female and male students or graduates with a background in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
China also plans to instate a new standardized recruitment processes that will implement steps to improve the physical, mental and political assessments of recruits.
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1 year ago
Here’s the deal. It’s mint chip!
1 year ago
Well, now I know why America is not mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Members of America’s largest religious cult, the Democratic Party, voted to end the USA.
1 year ago
The bastards will be running to Canada as they did in the Vietnam war. Of course Trump will be blamed for this.
