The real reason why mainland China is refusing to serve in the military, analysis says that if war breaks out, fear of greater resistance

The Communist Party media “People’s Daily” Anhui WeChat public number yesterday (April 4), citing the Hefei City Shushan District Government website news, Shushan District Government Conscription Office March 16, 2021 has made a “decision on the treatment of 2020 refusal to serve recruits Liu Shuai”.

The content shows that Liu Shuai, a native of Linzhang County, Handan City, Hebei Province, was admitted to Anhui Agricultural University in 2019 and enlisted in the army in September 2020 and was assigned to serve in a ministry of Xinjiang Military Region. on September 17, 2020 Liu Shuai arrived at the army and showed discomfort and proposed to leave the army. on November 6, 2020, Liu Shuai was removed from the Communist Party army.

The penalties imposed by the recruitment office in Shushan District include a fine of 46,866 yuan, the financial sector is not allowed to grant him preferential credit policies and preferential interest rate policies for 3 years, he is not allowed to be hired as a civil servant or staff managed with reference to the civil service law, personnel of public institutions and staff of state-owned enterprises, Anhui Agricultural University is not allowed to handle his reinstatement procedures for 2 years, and the media has treated him as The media will inform him as a “negative example”, and note “refusal to serve in the military” in his personal household registration permanently, and he will not be allowed to go abroad for 2 years, and will not be allowed to go through business procedures for 3 years.

Recently, there have been many cases of Chinese young people refusing to serve in the military.

In December 2020, the official of Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu Province, informed that Zhang Wenquan of Yong’an Village, Sitan Township, the county, was punished for refusing to serve in the military.

In the same month, authorities in Wuming District, Nanning, Guangxi Province, issued a “Notice of Punishment for Wu Zhengbang’s Refusal to Serve in the Military”, stating that Wu Zhengbang, a student at Guangxi Academy of Performing Arts, had been removed from the Chinese Communist Army for refusing to serve in the military, and that the decision to punish him was announced in the media and government departments at all levels in a high-profile manner, and was required to be publicized for 15 days.

In September of the same year, the government of Xinzhou District, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, announced on its website that Xu Wenkui, a draft-age youth from Dongcheng Street in Xinzhou District, was fined 20,000 RMB for refusing to perform military service, denied employment as a civil servant for two years, prevented from going abroad, and denied business procedures for three years, among other eight heavy penalties.

The land media Xinjing News reported on April 26, 2020 that Hebei Province officially informed that 16 people were punished for refusing to perform military service in 2019.

Hong Kong military commentator Huang Dong told Apple Daily that there can be many reasons why young people do not want to serve in the military, but the military or the report will not specify, “it is not good for the morale of the army,” and the report emphasizes the lifelong punishment as a “political tattoo. The report emphasizes that these cases are not a single incident, the authorities need to make an example of the monkey.

Huang Dong believes that the crisis of military conflict is now increasing daily and that war could emerge at any time. Under the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy for many years, it is a big question whether young people are willing to go to war themselves, and whether their families and clans are willing to let them do so. If war breaks out, there may be even greater resistance when the authorities call up the military on a large scale.

According to the online article “Why Young People Don’t Want to Serve in the Military or Even Disable Themselves to Avoid Military Service”, the real reason why young people don’t want to serve in the military is that the Chinese Communist Party’s military is too corrupt, and such a force cannot protect the country, suggesting that the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people should be allowed to serve in the military.

You Minglei, a democratic rights activist in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, has said that the CCP’s military is not to protect the people, but to protect the interests of the Communist Party, so many young people are unwilling to serve in the military.