New recruits of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in training to adjust their standing postures in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, October 16, 2013. Photo：Reuters
Soldiers Of The One-Child Era: Are They Too Weak To Fulfill Beijing's Military Ambitions? -- South China Morning Post
With 70pc of soldiers from one-child families, many wonder if they could cope on battlefield
No one knows the real fighting capability of the People’s Liberation Army, but the fact that more than 70 per cent of China’s soldiers come from one-child families raises questions about how well prepared these troops would be for the horrors of battle.
“I was a spoiled boy as I am an only child. In my first year in the army, after a hard day’s training I’d hide under my blanket and cry every night because I missed home and my girlfriend,” Dalian native Sun Youpeng, who joined the PLA after graduating from university at the age of 22 in 2010, told the South China Morning Post.
Past reports from the PLA Daily tell of recruits spitting red ink to feign sickness and escape the tough training.
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My Comment: China's young are the same as everywhere else in the world .... I doubt that this one-child policy will have an impact on their military (if any).
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I disagree. Historically the PLA kept a standing army of high numbers. To do this now with the "one child per family" situation means any action of the PLA will reverberate back to more civilians than ever before. This will have political ramifications especially in cases of casualties. Actually I think this may have very far reaching effects in war fighting doctrine, strategic aims, etc, but I haven't put much thought to it. Maybe more later.
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