Plus I know it's superficial but most the guns are ugly. I loved how the chinese assault rifle looked and instead now with the assault rifle we get this ugly, unwieldy looking thing that looks just awkward to use. That isn't even as good as my crafted gun. The assault rifle in 03 looked your very stereotypical military rifle. It was great. And it worked for almost everything (up close, far away, decent damage, seemed to shoot accurately enough).
Why not just upgrade a combat rifle to automatic? I know it's more of a burst fire, but it ends up looking almost Chinese assault rifle like. Either that or get to work on a submachine gun, I'll admit that it's one of my least favourite though. Apart from maybe one reference I don't think there was a large contingency of Chinese soldiers in the Commonwealth, so having a Chinese assault rifle doesn't make all that much sense