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PLA Marine Corps deployed to Xinjiang for the first time

People’s Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps based in Sanyan, Hainan was transported to Xinjiang in the western part of China this week. This is the first time that Chinese Marines have been deployed to Xinjiang.

Marines of the People's Liberation Army (Navy)
By U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal J.J. Harper (http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=40904) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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