I'm not so sure they can do that with tactical weapons. I know it's not the 50s anymore, but IIRC, wasn't the PRC known for using massively wasteful human wave

I'm not so sure they can do that with tactical weapons. I know it's not the 50s anymore, but IIRC, wasn't the PRC known for using massively wasteful human wave attacks in Korea? They have a political system that's more tolerant to wasteful losses than a democracy.