The Chinese government reports expenditure information annually. In March 2019, China’s Ministry of Finance announced a yearly budget of 1.19 trillion yuan ($177.5 billion),1 marking a 7.5 percent2 increase from the 2018 budget of 1.11 trillion yuan ($167.4 billion).3 This follows a recent trend that has seen yearly percent increases in spending fall to single digits.
https://chinapower.csis.org/military-spending/
Yep, next to nothing compared to the USA.
The USA spent $1.5 Trillion in Afghanistan Alone.
For comparison China’s military spending is less than the value of the iPhones they export each year.
You are aware of the concept of exponential growth ?
The iPhone reference is irrelevant, they can't fire missiles.
also China has had a lot of catchup to do, and unlike the USA their military has quite large domestic roles, they aren’t invading countries around the globe every 10 years.
Tell that to Tibet.
A nice peaceful country, no mad dictators, no terrorists , China just wanted it.
The Hawaiians voted to become a US state, I don't think Tibetans have had that opportunity.A bit like Hawaii, the USA just wanted it.
The Hawaiians voted to become a US state, I don't think Tibetans have had that opportunity.
this is getting very selective.they voted to become a state in 1959, they were annexed by force 63 years earlier in 1897 and became a US territory,
Not to mention the USA also took large parts of Mexico by force, for example The land where Disneyland and the city of LA sit was part of Mexico, hence why Los Angeles is a Spanish name.
they voted to become a state in 1959, they were annexed by force 63 years earlier in 1897 and became a US territory,
Not to mention the USA also took large parts of Mexico by force, for example The land where Disneyland and the city of LA sit was part of Mexico, hence why Los Angeles is a Spanish name.
Italy took large parts of the U.K.they voted to become a state in 1959, they were annexed by force 63 years earlier in 1897 and became a US territory,
Not to mention the USA also took large parts of Mexico by force, for example The land where Disneyland and the city of LA sit was part of Mexico, hence why Los Angeles is a Spanish name.
this is getting very selective.
(PS there's a town in nth California named Russian River.)
Well, you would expect the human race to have evolved in 200 years, but we still have big countries taking over little countries for no good reason.
this is getting very selective.
(PS there's a town in nth California named Russian River.)
after traveling in the USA, Australian tomato sauce just seems to weak and watery, I like that ketchup Iliad a bit more tang and is thicker.
If I had a choice of NZ (cranes) or China (cladding) I'll take NZ.. We're scaffolded either way.Italy took large parts of the U.K.
The U.K gave HK back to China.
China is encroaching into the South China Sea.
NZ is taking over Australia, by stealth, networking and one scaffold plank at a time.
Bearing in mind I'm using it as an analogy, it's an appeal to the reality that very rarely did the owner of a generic take away shop complete with its Coke sign and so on make a successful transition. Few if any of those shops took down the sign which said "TAKE AWAY", scraped the tobacco company advertising off the windows and put up a new sign saying "McDonald's" and continued in business.why wouldn’t you count the chain stores? Not counting them is an appeal to nostalgia rather than to economics.
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