LOLZ.
It could be the same Chinese paper, or maybe not, but a few years back one Chinese paper echoed - in all seriousness - a story from The Onion that the US government was threatening to relocate out of Washington unless the city built them a new stadium with retracting dome roof.
Training monkeys with guns, eh? How many training accidents are they going to have before they are combat ready?
And are there really that many monkeys in Afghanistan? In fact, are there any? I don't think so.