Overseas people watched Japan’s Self-Defense Forces form a human bucket relay to unload supplies and immediately asked the obvious question:
“Why don’t they just reverse the trucks?”
A former Japanese soldier agreed — and admitted he was scolded for saying the same thing while still in uniform. Absolute obedience > common sense.
Now imagine the PLA doing the identical inefficient human chain.
Chinese state media and netizens would call it:
“The great spirit of hard struggle”
“A vivid lesson in serving the people”
“True patriotism in action”