And I know it can seem that my desire for you to succeed me sounds like an attempt to conscript you into forced family service.

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Even into the 1990s China had little more than a conscript army of ill-educated peasants using equipment based largely on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and outdated cold-war (or even guerrilla-war) doctrine.

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