Posted on 06/21/2009 6:38:09 PM PDT by Flavius
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China will recruit more than 120,000 college graduates this year, a military source said here Sunday.
According to a website run by the Ministry of Education to help college graduates find jobs, it is the first time the PLA has recruited college graduates on such a large scale, as the army seeks to improve its overall quality by drawing more talent and advancing its science and technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.people.com.cn ...
Look out, Korea, Australia, Japan, Siberia, Canada.
(They won't hit *all* of them at the same time; but the could go after *any * of them.)
Cheers!
We’re feeding a monster..........
They make their own Rolex and Ulysse Nardin watches, are they going to make their own Sizzler and Sunburn anti-ship missiles too?
I don’t remember that quote exactly: A society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
How many of these guys will find WIVES? They will be royally pissed off, and probably in no small way at their own government, too.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides (or Thoukydides)
They’re no match for our military’s 120,000 new Crips. :)
Our China policy over the last 24 years or so has been one of wealth transfer. We transfer our wealth and they buy our debt. All in the vain hope that they will become more like us. I really think history will look back at our actions and judge our leaders to be....absolute retards.
This big recruitment drive is probably geared toward cyber warfare.
Military history should be taught in every history, sociology, and anthropology course, from 5th or 6th grade on up through graduate school. Including the conflicts with the various Indians.
Training soldiers, sailors, and Marines in the liberal arts might be something of a stretch financially; although they need to be aware that they are important cultural participants.
Stop me before I sound like a Liberal. . .
Actually, the Chinese are just learning what the Russians learned in Chechnya.
That all the most advanced technology in the world is just so much expensive junk in the hands of uneducated peasant conscripts.
They have realized they need to get EDUCATED people to run thier war machines now, and the Russians have spent the last few years starting to build the NCO Corps.
But the Chinese will likely make them all officers, per the old Soviet Doctrine.
It seems the officer corps here usually started off as college educated. Military academies, good high schools, ROTC, all contribute well-educated officers. Looks like the Chinese military are finding smart college boys and making them offers which those kids cannot refuse?
Yes we are, but not in the way you think we are. The "monster" we are feeding is not the Chinese. The "monster" is that we have raised a generation of arrogant, idiotic, lazy spoiled brats with way too much "self esteem".
In China they do not give a rat's ass about a kid's "self esteem" or any of the other psychobabble "everyone is a winner" crap our school systems do. If a kid is too lazy (or too stupid) to keep up with the rest of his classmates he doesn't get to advance to the next grade and if he can't keep up he doesn't go to college-they won't waste time or resources on that. They will send him to a vo-tech school where he will learn a trade and if he is too dumb or lazy to do that he gets to be a manual laborer.
Chinese parents will not tolerate their chidren failing or being lazy and would not tolerate how American/European children treat their parents and families, either.
Also these kids know that an education is their ticket to wealth and a better life. There is no overly generous "Eurostlye/American style" welfare for them where they can sit on their ass eating bonbons all day in front of their 72" flat screen TV. In Europe and America kids look at someone who has made something of themselves and become rich as a target of hatred, in China their kids want to be as successful as that person is.
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