China Boasts of “Restrained” 12.7% Military Buildup in 2011
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 4, 2011 20:00 JST
- Tags: China, Military, Okinawa, Politics, Senkaku Complex, Statistics, Taiwan, USA
China’s latest budget sees its “restrained” military spending ballooning 12.7%, amidst reports that its actual spending is far higher than official figures.
In 2010 China was keen to emphasise its military budget would “only” be boosted 7.5%, and even with the 12.7% increase just announced for 2011, Chinese officials protest that spending is “restrained” and non-threatening:
“China’s defence spending is relatively low by world standards […] China has always paid attention to restraining defence spending.”
In other news, Japanese F-15s were recently scrambled to intercept Chinese fighters which approached within 55km of Japanese territorial waters near Okinawa, the closest yet, amidst increasing Japanese alarm at continuing favourable Chinese newspaper coverage of a proposed “Chinese Okinawa Autonomous Region.”
Chinese army hawks and revisionist historians are said to consider Okinawa to more properly belong to China, based on its pre-Japanese history as independent kingdom which paid tribute to the Chinese emperor.
However, the same logic would give China imperial claim to Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and large swathes of Russia and various other Asian neighbours, all of which have at some point paid tribute to China or incorporate areas once claimed by China.
The Philippines also recently issued a diplomatic protest to China after its ships were subject to threatening Chinese naval activity in the South China Sea (most of which China claims).
Even Japanese talk of scrapping the billions of dollars in “overseas development aid” it gives to China annually has been met with hostile headlines warning of “consequences” if the money stops, despite the obvious absurdity of the world’s third largest economy making aid payments to the world’s second largest economy.
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china's getting ready for 2012?
Nah, just WWIII.
While the US was so busy occupying itself with small-time Muslims, China suddenly became the second largest economy in the world. I don't believe I'm exaggerating the possibility of a war between the two.
One thing for sure, if a war does break out, Japan WILL be eaten alive, and I'll be missing all the different kinds of JAV women, from the 20 year old board to a 40something chubby jukujo.
One does not simply walk into Mordor. Uh, I mean China.
China is a pussy-wusssy. They won't ever think attacking Japan, South Korea and Philippines or half of the world will be their enemy.
They rather go against weaker countries such as Vietnam or Mongolia. Expand their territory through economic and bribery (Not so long ago, they just bought 10km2 from a Central Asia country) Their last card is to use military since Communist China are not fools.
you mean 10.000 km2 ?
actually only 83% of the worlds countries will become its enemies. African "under"developed countries included.
developed= African tribal kingdoms
Fixed it for you.
Nah I guess S.korea gonna attack us Japanese with chinks. They always scattering fake history and shitting around with chinks against Japan. Then sucking chinks balls. Sometimes claims that Chinks cultures are all theirs. also japanese's.....
They always stick and flatter to the strong one and abusing little one. That's the most of the history of koreans.
Sooo... When do you think the war will start?
give it good few years, 10-20yrs. if anything was to start. It properly happen similar to what how the ww2 started with Germany. build up of arms, once that is enough, they go in and invade/claim territory they claim was once theirs, while on the other side, the US+rest will try to avoid a direct confrontation relying on so called peaceful negotiations (knowing it do shit), before a full out war begins.
depending on the circumstances, the so called alliance would consist of USA+Britain+some of euro+the US lapdog Australia vs China + possible Iran and some of the so called axis of evil of the US
but mah someshit like that prob happen
And history only repeats itself like an endless waltz.
Too bad the Gundams are only functional in the minds of some anime director and the otakus. Otherwise, war would be a little bit more interesting to look forward to, lol.
Woa, calm down China.
God damn China. It's times like this, it's just hard to side with their policies. The way they're intimidating its neighbors is akin to Germany's near the start of the Nazi campaign of World War 2.
Also, it has a ripple effect. It forces its neighbors and places like America to continuously pump up military spending while those billions could go to SCHOOLS (how about FREE TEXTBOOKS FOR ALL STUDENTS? FREE TUITION?), medicare, social security, the stuff human society NEEDS. All this campaign of fear and antagonism.
I just hate that about China. I feel so sorry for the innocent Chinese civilians in all this being engineered by their own government to live their lives in fear and antagonism regarding foreign nations and all the while, their own civil liberties are still at a dumpster level.
Keep repeating Western propaganda. Funny how most Chinese are content where they are, they know some of the stuff the communist party says are BS, but also know how much the country's come since Mao's days. Unlike most of the idiots in the US, no matter how much restrictions the government puts on them (Patriot Act, biased media, etc.) they still just eat it right up and still think they are "free" and every other country, no matter the culture or unique circumstances, should be like them. While the corporations and politicians get more and more profit and suck you all dry. You don't any Chinese go around the world and say how great their country is, everyone should be like them, and then attack any country who resists. LOL.
if china screw us over were all DOOMED
yeah they can toss all there females in Jusenkyo's Spring of Drowned Man and make loads of male soldiers
you mean Nannīchuan?? shit were all fucked!!!!
So THATS how all the Olympic Swimmers from the mainland team get all so butch!!
So, China's military budget is about 15% of the military budget of the U.S., so what? (And those 15% are rounded up, mind you.)
i think china has already been the largest economy by far.... unofficially. imagine china declares war now, who can stop them?
George bush
I can see the Nazi Germany in China nowadays. Their ambitious is almost clear and their power are rising. Just a matter of time for them to open fire.
exactly what i was thinking
and i will be very pissed if the united nations, america, european union and nato proceed with the brainless gutless policy of pre-war britain and france
so in other words i will be pissed...
i dont want to live to see the takeover by pseudocommunist nazi elitist neoaristocrats and their brainwashed yellow sheep
They are, Nazi's With Nukes
That sure Scare the shit of the yangkee
especialy Now when more than Half of USA debt is to Chinesee.
If somebody owes you money, it's best not to kill them because then they definitely won't pay it back!
who says you need them alive to get your money back? You can just seize their land and get more than what you lend to them.
SUUUUUUUUUURE
before that happens china will start a war with some neighbouring country
starting another world war
america hops in against china fucks they shit up claims all debts evaporated
and continues living untouched just like in ww2
anon, you make it sound so simple, considering the time it took for them to invade iraq, lets compare that to fighting a country that can actually fight back with an immense economic foundation to help it
@anon 00:004
But this time, America doesn't have the Soviets to "help" them...
It's obvious, the way how they reacted in 2010 Nobel Peace Prize by eerily copying the Nazis reaction shows just that.
Funny how all the nazis from germany back then now live in the US though.
So I guess it's neonazis versus newnazis
Why? They declare war on an ally and the US officially gets a get-out-of-debt-free card.
UK is the second biggest debt holder of the US.
If your assumption is based on entries from Sankaku, I do recommend you to read from other more politically-neutral sources.
Good-luck finding a "politically-neutral source."
Compared to the US military budget, China is still way off. Plus, given China's reputation for product quality, I am not even sure how long can their weapons last in a war.
The US military budget is larger than the entire rest of the world's military budgets combined.
But you have to consider the cost of living in the DC area, and the cost of blowjobs for congressmen and MIC CEOs.
it would be nice to see a chinese tank rushing through a street and then suddenly dismembering itself xD. Later on they will find out that some screws were not tightened and some were missing.
Plus the hull was built from trashbags and styrofoam.
a "steel" screw broke into pieces revealing trash inside, so are the bullets and missiles.
Chinese ammunition used during Vietnam war was famous for not been able to hit shit. QUALITY manufacture combined with lack of lead core (bullet were made as single chunk of steel) made them very unbalanced which killed any accuracy of guns, as at 100m+ bullet flight path was completely unpredictable.
Chinese guns were known to not be any better, though stories about AK's exploding in people faces were just urban legend, made-up to explain such occurences. These were in fact caused by Deep Recon, adding to VC stashes some ammo "improved" with TNT.
There was also lots of diference in survivabilty between chinese made Type-59/69 tanks and original Soviet T-55/T-62 tanks during Desert Storm.
You're insulting the rising panda. Their money was spend for developing arm and weapon is not for show, you know.
@Moeru - You would be surprise that all there hard earned cashes is spend on there military goods. As far as being clones.. If what you said was true, then most Chinese would not be in living in poverty. That's one sad fact. Plus with all people they have in their military, we would be run over like pancakes. We can't invade them, but they can. Only that would only be a option. All hail the cold war days. And mother Russia. ^o^/
you DO realize that the only reason the rest of the world including their citizens get cheap knockoffs is because they want to get a profit right? They would definitely give their own military high quality equipment
It would be Iraq all over again just on a larger scale.
Tank service in the PLA would quickly gain a reputation as a suicide mission as A-10s will simply open up one Chinese tank after another in quick succession.
Troops in landing craft would simply be called hamburger and chum as that is what they'll become.
I expect the fatality rate here to be very close to 100% though who don't die would be captured by coalition forces.
I say coalition as it won't just be the USA,,India,japan,UK, and most of the EU will be apposing Chinese aggression.
Can any one tall me what sankakucomplex is about?
Why would anyone TALL you?
Obvious troll detected...
Homefront will become a reality =o
But then with China instead of N Korea
The Game Developers for Homefront were just being nice, but they actually wanted it to be China.
LOL.
But then, China let North Korea run the show so that the invasion plans for America can't be traced to China.
Last time I heard, China was supposed to be one of the enemies in the game Crysis but was replaced by North Korea... :S