China already has the largest army in the world. Now its soldiers are getting bigger too.
A People’s Liberation Army study has concluded that its soldiers are significantly taller and fatter than they were 20 years ago – so much so that they are in danger of outgrowing their equipment.
The study recommended developing larger models of current military hardware because of the changed “parameters” of a generation raised on plentiful and fast food, compared with the austerity generation of the cultural revolution era.
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