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China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) began as an all-volunteer force. In 1955, as part of an effort to modernize the PLA, the first Military Service Law created a system of compulsory military service. [1] Since the late 1970s, the Chinese conscription laws mandate a hybrid system that combines conscripts and volunteers.
This joint working group signaled the leadership's interest in modernizing the mobilization capacities of China. [ citation needed ] The joint meetings resulted in the introduction in March 2023 of the new Reservists Law that redefined the structure of the reserve force and separated the Militia from the reserve force for the first time.
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC), also known as the child soldier treaty, is a multilateral treaty whereby states agree to: 1) prohibit the conscription into the military of children under the age of 18; 2) ensure that military recruits are no younger than 16; and 3) prevent recruits aged 16 or 17 from ...
The first batch of new recruits began serving their one-year compulsory military service in Taiwan on Thursday after the conscription period was extended from four months due to government ...
The Department of Conscription Administration (DCA; Chinese: 內政部役政司) is the agency of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China in charge of national conscription administration.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security on Monday following whistleblower allegations about an internal employee group chat discussing "serious concerns" about ...
Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the Canadian Expeditionary Force was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas ...
The new rules, details of which Reuters is reporting for the first time, will be added to sweeping U.S. restrictions on shipments of advanced chips and chipmaking equipment to China unveiled last ...