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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Zeng,
Back off. I gave you a wide latitude but this is where you are as in the dark as everybody else. For one thing, the official PLA budgets do not include capital purchases. Regiments do not have to buy their tanks or guns or even bullets. The PLA does not pay pensions. The CCP does. This essentially means that we have no way what a Chinese soldier costs.
Added to this, we really don't know what the expansion plans of the PLA is. Yes, they've shrunked by a million men since the 1980s but the number of regiments have not been reduced.
So don't tell us what you know because you know nothing.
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I surely know nothing. We all believed that you know everything.
But your statements show that there are absolute unknowns here. Then, what is the creditability of 30% increasing rate? Why should we believe that it is 30% not 25% or 35%?