The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's latest estimates put Chinese military expenditures at $293 billion in 2021, compared with the U.S.'s $801 billion. Those figures peg China's military spending at about 1.7% of GDP, compared with 3.5% by the U.S., according to the institute.
Note how Murdoch media choose 2019 as the base to measure from not 2021 which indicates no increase in China's defense spending. In the mean time Australia's and American spending has leapfrogged and boosted the businesses of all arms manufacturers
BEIJING—China plans to boost its military spending by 7.2% this year, the government said Sunday, accelerating its military buildup as tensions rise with the U.S. and its allies over Taiwan.
Total
military expenditures this year will reach the equivalent of about $224
billion, according to a draft budget report issued at the opening of
the annual gathering of China’s National People’s Congress. That growth
rate would be the fastest since 2019 and exceeds Beijing’s target for gross domestic product growth this year. Murdoch's WSJ
The Age is following the Murdoch "business model" of Corporate Capitalism creating demand and ratings for itself in order to attract and hopefully atttract wealth and favor from the market where the mega-millions lie and that's not with subscribers who provide evidence of numbers only that those with public "fear" rely on.
"The Red Alert" is a forum constructed by Peter Costello's Ch 9 whose business model has adopted the tactics of News Corp and Sky News for its survival. The message is purely Anglo-Western and one not as dramatic as that found in the Pacific or Asian regions. If you want an opinion of "war" create and ask those whose jobs depend on it to form a round table to discuss it but don't invite those who are experts on peace and diplomacy. It's this same beating of the drum that took us to Vietnam, Afghanistan and Syria
Since the days of the LNP's Abbott government China has been the great political "threat". The Wolf at our door whose creation has been assisted by the media and totally suited to the politics of fear the LNP has always practiced. Who remembers the the Fulan-Gong today, the Uyghurs, in light of our LNP's inhumane detention centers and the conditions of our first nation peoples in remote areas until recently regarded by the likes of Andrew Bolt et al as the most dysfunctional culture on the planet.
The Age of Shame on our front page today undermining the current ALP Government's message that relationship wit China has improved
‘We have made our choice’: Australia’s participation in war ‘inevitable’
Five of the nation’s top security minds sound the alarm about Australia’s readiness for war.
Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no.
Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready
These are words you’d expect to hear in Israel today but no they are from Putin’s Russia against transgender
“In March, this creature arrive in Ukraine and in mid-October was officially enlisted into the ranks of the AFU,” sneered host Olga Skabeeva.
German media called Sarah Ashton-Cirillo “Putin’s number one enemy” in Ukraine, an American transgender journalist who gave up her camera and since October has been fighting for Ukraine. A recent near-death experience on the frontline in Bakhmut and the continuing divisions in American society put her on KremlinTV once again this week.
Source: KremlinTV Targets American Transgender Journalist Now Fighting For Ukraine | Crooks and Liars
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