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

· By Albee Zhang
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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…

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