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Chinese Army "don't ask - don't tell" regulation still pending.
After so many years of heated debates homosexuality is no longer considered a chronic mental disease in China. However, being a homosexual there is a serious violation of the law. So, sexual minorities in China are not conscripted into the army. The Chinese army with 2.5 million people under arms is the worlds most numerous. And none of the soldiers belongs to sexual minorities. To find out if conscripts are heterosexual or not all of them must undergo thorough medical examination. Doctors need to find out if a foreign object was ever placed into a conscripts anus. Those suspected of homosexuality are rejected as defective. The Chinese leadership states that a gay army cannot have high morale. At the same time, conscripts having same-sex partners serve in the armies in 23 countries of the world, in Britain and Israel for example. Great Britain even launches special advertising campaigns to engage homosexual conscripts in the Navy. Ex-president of the USA Bill Clinton allowed conscription of sexual minorities into the army. But the US army faced another problem during the operation Desert Shield in Iraq when the number of female soldiers was so great that sexual activity in the army nearly frustrated the entire of the operation. The official annual budget of the Chinese army is $30 billion while the real return reaches even $70 billion. In Russia , the amount makes up $23.8 billion. In 2007, the US supposes to spend $439 billion on the defense. In large Chinese cities twenty men account for one woman, and this is the reason why homosexuality is so widely spread in the country. In the Chinese villages the ratio is better: one woman accounts for seven men. In the Ancient Sparta, same-sex lovers were subject to conscription into the army and were certainly enrolled into one group. And it is known that the warriors of the army in Sparta had absolutely high morale. Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-08 |
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