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[quote=YINDUFFY,242259]I think the new service uniforms for the Army, Navy and Air Force are very well designed. I really don't see any traditional features: they look like a clean break from the old styles. Even the button design is new. As for the undress uniforms, or as the US Army would call them "Class B" I have not seen a change yet. Most troops would wear the pale green shirt outside the trousers for a while yet. 
There are a lot of organizations that wear military-style uniforms in China and it can be hard identifying the wearer as an Army member or as a member of some other group. Perhaps this change was to help boost morale by allowing the wearer to be instantly identified.
Army camoflage utility uniforms (fatigues) are worn as work clothes by street sweepers, farm workers, construction workers etc. as they are cheap and readily available. That uniform has somewhat lost its distinctive Army relationship. I understand that the new Chinese Army camouflage utility or combat uniform has been selected and is a digital pattern in a fashion of the USMC and US Army combat uniforms. ( It should be pointed out that the old camoflage pattern used by the Chinese was a copy of the US Army developed ERDL pattern from the 1960's.)
The Chinese military is building up in a frightening parallel to Hitler's 1930's Germany. Chinese TV has been promoting its military as the 80th anniversary of the PLA is this month. The Beijing Military museum has special outdoor and indoor exhibits to promote its new military and its new weapons.
I hope that China stays peaceful.[/quote]

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