.....this article is a blinding flash of the obvious.... gee; I wonder how many women infantry troops pass this or similar Combat Fitness [sic] Test in China’s Peoples’ Liberation Army...?? oh, wait.... the only PLA troops I have ever seen on the evening teevee news appear to be young, very fit, grim-faced males who look like they could kick azz and take names at a moment’s notice....!!
“...the only PLA troops I have ever seen on the evening teevee news appear to be young, very fit, grim-faced males...”
Grim-faced because maybe they are all bachelors. China’s former one-child policy resulted in a horrific number of girl babies being aborted. The imbalance of the sexes that followed meant millions of young men are unable to find wives.
Their unrequited masculine urges were diverted toward military ferocity in the PLA, with a pie-in-the-sky promise of `veteran’s preference’ in someday acquiring a spouse.