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Inside the PLA’s new austerity drive: lean, mean, printing-on-both-sides machine

🇨🇳 China·The UNHINGED Desk·Source: SCMP·30 Oct, 01:00 am
Inside the PLA’s new austerity drive: lean, mean, printing-on-both-sides machine — China
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The Straight Version

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is distributing second-hand briefcases, salvaging screws and steel bars, and reusing holiday decorations to keep costs down as part of a thrift campaign emphasising growth through frugality. It forms part of a broader cost-cutting effort in the Chinese military under Beijing’s 15th five-year plan covering 2026 to 2030, which calls for building the armed forces through “diligence and thrift” and pursuing a path of “high efficiency, low cost and...

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"Inside the PLA’s new austerity drive: lean, mean, printing-on-both-sides machine" — absolute weapon-grade incompetence. Whoever signed off on this circus needs their hard drive checked and their security pass shredded immediately.

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"Inside the PLA’s new austerity drive: lean, mean, printing-on-both-sides machine" — absolute weapon-grade incompetence.

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"Inside the PLA’s new austerity drive: lean, mean, printing-on-both-sides machine" — absolute weapon-grade incompetence. FAILED / 10 https://unhingednews.com/cn/inside-the-plas-new-austerity-drive-lean-mean #NZElection2026 #UnhingedNZ

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