China slashes ground troops by half, boosts strategic force
>China has slashed the size of its Army by about 50% and boosted other units like strategic support force responsible for cyber warfare, according to the country's official news agency Xinhua
>"this new data is unprecedented in the history of the PLA (People's Liberation Army) - the army now accounts for less than 50% of the total number of PLA troops; almost half of our non-combatant units have been made redundant, and the number of officers in the PLA has been reduced by 30%," the news agency said
>it said the four other branches of the PLA - the navy, air force, rocket force and strategic support force, which is responsible for areas such as cyberwarfare - now jointly make up more than half of the Chinese military, overtaking the army
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Chinese Christian details indoctrination camps, being forced to blaspheme Christ
>a Chinese Christian woman revealed the mental abuse she endured at a Chinese “indoctrination camp,” including how police withheld sleep after she refused to blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ
>Jian Yongjiu, a member of The Church of Almighty God, told Bitter Winter magazine that after she was arrested for “organizing and using an organization to undermine state law enforcement," she was sent to a “legal education center” in Hangzhou city, in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang
>while presented as “educational” facilities, inmates are routinely submitted to an “inhuman regime of labor and indoctrination and to strong pressure to renounce their religious faith, with instances of torture and suspicious deaths frequently reported,” according to Bitter Winter
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