Posted on 08/03/2018 6:10:09 PM PDT by RightGeek
BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese officer appealed to military veterans on Tuesday not to take complaints about their treatment to the streets and to "rationally" lodge appeals for redress.
At the annual meeting of parliament in March, China set up a Ministry of Veterans Affairs as part of a broader government reshuffle, aiming to better look after former soldiers whose complaints about poor treatment have flared into scattered protests in recent years.
In February 2017, Chinese military veterans staged two days of demonstrations in central Beijing, demanding unpaid retirement benefits in a new wave of protests highlighting the difficulty in managing demobilized troops.
There were also protests in the eastern province of Jiangsu in June.
Speaking at a news briefing ahead of Wednesday's Army Day, which marks the founding of the People's Liberation Army, Vice Minister of Veterans Affairs Fang Yongxiang said their door to accepting petitions about problems was always open.
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The government has promised that veterans will be given preference when it comes to seeking jobs, an issue that has become more pressing since President Xi Jinping announced in 2015 the People's Liberation Army would cut troop levels by 300,000.
Grievances over military pensions and perceived poor treatment of veterans have been a long-running issue, and have at times led to organized protests.
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Invade India and you will have fewer problems. At least, fewer problem of this nature.
I wonder if they have VA hospitals or organization; but then, when was the last time they fought in a war? Korea?
America has had the same problems - see the Bonus Army
What a WONDERFUL bubbling cauldron..!
AND many of them will never be able to marry, tsk-tsk..!
All while something similar is occuring in Iran.
LOVE THIS PREZ..!!!
Impossible.
China is one big, happy family all driving down the same road singing songs and eating cookies.
Trouble in Maoist Paradise.
Pass the popcorn.
I sense unrest among China’s peeps, who number enough to demand their freedoms.
It’s been a while, but China invaded Vietnam in 1979 (after Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia).
China has also been busy occupying Tibet and shooting folks in Tiananmen Square.
Someone just turned over their dim sum cart.
They have a billion vets.
Okay - so any of their soldiers hurt?
With a disarmed general populace, the Chinese military must be aware that very little stands in the way of it seizing control of the government.
Wow! Really? What's the reasoning behind this?
This is what comes of the one-child policy and 100,000,000 more men than women.
Depends who you ask, but quite a few apparently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
China
Western estimate: 26,000 killed, 37,000 wounded
Vietnam:
Western estimate: 30,000 killed, 32,000 wounded[16]
Both sides claim victory, by the way.
Don’t know about Tibet or Tiananmen. Lots of civilian casualties at Tiananmen, for sure.
I was surprised to find out that Communist China supported the North during the Vietnam war with both material and manpower. They manned anti-aircraft batteries in the Northern provinces of Vietnam as well as provide other “services” normally considered to be Military functions. These included repair of bombed infrastructure (road and bridges) and the early warning portion of Air Defense, They suffered significant casualties just like we did... In essence they supported the North just like the U.S. supported the South.
I suspect this has happened in other conflicts but is not at the forefront of our world view. The military Veterans of these “adventures” are now calling for the same treatment that other Western Nations give their Veterans!
Tiananmen
only some 2,000 or so bodies were found or reported after: reporters, other troops and their vehicles, civilians in near by buildings, passers by on way home from work, etc, after 48 hours of continuous heavy and light machine gun fire with armor piercing rounds.
10,000 others or more were run over by tracked vehicles, bulldozed the resulting mush into piles, burned, flushed down the sewer with fire hoses.
Just eating cookies and singing songs ...
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