I would be interested to know what the sailors make of it.
What do the captains of those ships make of it?
I can only guess that some high ranking members of government want only the best for their infants and are willing to embarrass their navy to get it.
I was thinking something similar. What must the sailors think of a Government which has to buy goods from a hated capitalist country for their own citizens.
Could be that the Chinese product is poison and these sailors know it.
So, they did their shopping and left.
Wonder what they filmed/saw while they were there.
Parents in China do not trust local brands of baby formulae. There were tons of it tainted about 10 years ago that literally killed 1000’s of children.
In HK tourist are only allowed to take 2 cans of powdered formula back. Otherwise the mainlanders where buying out entire stores. They can sell it for 8 or 10 times the price if they have a receipt from HK.
Since the PLA pays really badly, the sailors were probably just taking it back to China to sell.