Chinese Defense Spending Set to Rise by 11.2%

[Burhead]

BBC News - China military budget tops $100bn

Will go over the billion dollar mark for the first time as well. I'm interested in seeing how they will use the ex-Soviet carrier Varyag. From what I understand it will be purely a training ship. It is expected to be handed over to the PLAN sometime this year.

 

[YorkVol]

My bet would be they will use it primarily as a training tool for their sub fleet.

 

[n_huffhines]

So what does this mean? They're budget now equals 30% of ours?

 

[utvolpj]

China's official defence spending

color me skeptical

 

[OrangeEmpire]

So what does this mean? They're budget now equals 30% of ours?

You really think its 30%........

 

[gsvol]

I thought I had read that they were building at least two new carriers.

The truth is that we don't really know what they spend on their military, they have no FOIA or such.

 

[hndog609]

Interesting as I'm currently reading Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon. China's defense spending is a big player in the plotline.

 

[utvolpj]

Interesting as I'm currently reading Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon. China's defense spending is a big player in the plotline.

pretty good book

 

[hndog609]

pretty good book

Rather long to get to the "juicy" parts but the shooting just started so I'm looking forward to what's next.

 

[utvolpj]

some interesting stuff in there for sure (especially since it was written a decade ago). I like reading his military writing