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China’s Real Military Budget Has Quietly Become Almost as Big as Ours

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rangerrebew:
China’s Real Military Budget Has Quietly Become Almost as Big as Ours
By Mackenzie Eaglen

The Hill

April 30, 2024
 
Americans are too often put at ease by the erroneous statistic that the U.S. spends “more than the next 10 countries combined” on its military.

It’s time to put a stake in the heart of this tired trope, because it is simply no longer true. A more careful examination shows Beijing’s military budget is on par with that the U.S.

In the last decade, Beijing’s self-reported defense budget has more than doubled. China also now boasts the largest navy in the world, alongside the biggest coast guard and maritime militia. It has the globe’s biggest army and sub-strategic missile force to boot. It continues to make peer-level leaps in advanced military fields of hypersonic missiles and quantum computing technologies.

Beijing must cheer our complacency at believing it could achieve such outcomes while spending just a quarter of what the U.S. spends on its military. But our new research indicates that China is plowing far more money into hard power than it professes, with a military budget that might have been as high as $711 billion in 2022.

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/chinas-real-military-budget-has-quietly-become-almost-as-big-as-ours/

rangerrebew:
I wonder how much of that money is earmarked for woke programs and gay/trannnie education. :whistle:

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