China will “only” increase its military spending by 7.5% in 2010, to 532 billion yuan; the force is already the world’s largest with some 3,000,000 members.
China has been increasing its military budget by over 10% each year for the past two decades or more, but many suspect it has been concealing the true magnitude of its military expenditures amidst its notoriously opaque public spending, and are similarly sceptical about this year’s supposed reduction in increases.
China claims its purpose in this huge armaments program is purely self-defence:
“The only purpose of China’s limited military strength is to safeguard China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
China insists its territory includes land currently administered by several neighbouring nations, and historically has felt free to impose its sovereignty on non-Chinese peoples in a vast empire, intact to this day:
Hawks within the PLA advocate building a huge military force with which to challenge the west, the so-called “China Dream.” Even moderates advocate the invasion of Taiwan, which is already the target of thousands of missiles.
One Chinese foreign policy think-tank was last year lambasted for suggesting Chinese policy should encourage the forcible break-up of India, and Chinese submarines have repeatedly infiltrated Japanese territorial waters – many understandably wonder if its rise will be as peaceful as it claims.
japan is paranoid because this reminds then of there Nazi military imperialism past. don’t worry japs its only for self defense. the moment you hit china, china will sink your country.
Lolz americans just need 1 prism tank to r♥♥e most of chinese ground forces xD Or germans or anione else for that matter xD 1 prism ,hmm wonder who will make sumtin like that 1st xD
Not that its a bad thing. This kind of puts pressure on the US, who can’t go running around with their armies around the world promoting “peace” as they would like to call it. The small increase they showed to the world also helps from over excessive use of force, so they can enmasse an attack force without the UN to come down on their heads.
It is scary to think that China can afford to continue to lose a war up untill the end because of their nearly endless amounts of troops. Even with our advanced army in the US, do we have enough people to stop them? China has pretty good weapnry too, what would stop them from taking Japan or anywhere?
You Americans are suffering from some kind of post cold war persecutory delusions, that’s probably why you spend so much on your military and are overly sensitive to our proportionate military growth rate. We dont have armies stationed at your borders and are never going to do anything to you, in fact, I’m pretty sure if a war were to occur the US army stationed at Okinawa would be the ones to fire the first shot. >:(