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Xi calls for overhaul of military education

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There’s a Chinese saying that goes “don’t waste good iron to make nails or good men to make soldiers.”
Xi Jinping begs to differ.
On Wednesday, the big man delivered the opening address for a training session at the PLA National Defense University.

In the speech, he called for a new type of militar...