Can China tame its war machine?

A popular Soviet joke goes like this: a factory worker was caught stealing parts, piece by piece, to assemble a sewing machine for his wife at home. When the interrogator asks whether he ever managed to put it together, the worker sighs: “No matter how many times I reassemble it, I keep ending up with a Kalashnikov …

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