China's Defense Spending Thread

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Silvestre

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Sweden have $6 billion how goes down to 3,5 billion euros after 2018.

antiterror13 said:
The extra $13B is roughly equivalent to
* 1.0x Spain's defense budget ($12.7B)
* 4x Vietnam's defense budget (US$3.3B)
* 4x the Philippine's defense budget ($3.2B)
* 1.2x Taiwan's defense budget ($10.5B)
* 0.4x South Korea's defense budget ($33B)
* 0.31x Japan's defense budget ($42B)
* 0.32x India's defense budget ($41B)
* 2.4x Malaysia's defense budget ($5.4B)
* 1.6x Indonesia's defense budget ($8B)
etc, etc
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Franklin

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antiterror13 said:
well, it seems Chinese defense budget will increase by 10%
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... let me do a simple analysis
At the moment the defense budget is 808B Yuan (~US$129B) .. 10% increase means 888.8B Yuan or with current exchange rate (6.27)will be roughly US$142B ..... not bad, US$13B more.

The extra $13B is roughly equivalent to
* 1.0x Spain's defense budget ($12.7B)
* 4x Vietnam's defense budget (US$3.3B)
* 4x the Philippine's defense budget ($3.2B)
* 1.2x Taiwan's defense budget ($10.5B)
* 0.4x South Korea's defense budget ($33B)
* 0.31x Japan's defense budget ($42B)
* 0.32x India's defense budget ($41B)
* 2.4x Malaysia's defense budget ($5.4B)
* 1.6x Indonesia's defense budget ($8B)
etc, etc
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China's official defense budget is still around 1,4% of GDP and if you add the off budget items its at most 2% of GDP.
 
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Silvestre

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Silvestre said:
Sweden have $6 billion how goes down to 3,5 billion euros after 2018.
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$6 billion are 5 billion euros. Rights?
Swedish defence budjet goes from 5 billion to 3,5 billion euros.
After 2018 destany. Army is most expensive in Swedish armed forces.
Then Air Force planes plus personnal cost us money.

2745 personnal in Air Force today goes upod.
To over 4000 man 2015, 2020 or 2025.

New size in armies 3 alternative to gives.
Maximum ten years to next size.
Todays beholder maximum 5 or 10 years.

Edit.

One battalion in Ronneby plus one small division JAS in same city.
Or zero division JAS in Ronneby.

Moderats haved planned JAS in Ronneby after 2018 before Socialdemocrats won last year. Socialdemocrats will taken away JAS in Ronneby allready. The Red Green alliance have changes plannes.
 
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LesAdieux

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according to the IHS, in 2014 China was the third largest weapon importer after Saudi Arabia and India. it is kind of surprise for me, what did China purchase? no big deal was announced, except for jet engines, China didn't buy anything.
 
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Silvestre

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175 billion euros is pure class by China defence budjet.
More than Russia.
But still after USA.
 
Lethe

Lethe

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As expected, SIPRI's latest estimates (released today) covering spending up to 2014 have Chinese military spending pushing past $200bn for the first time.

Top 10 (in current USD millions)

USA: 609914
China: 216371
Russia: 84462
Saudi Arabia: 80762
France: 62289
UK: 60482
India: 49968
Germany: 46455
Japan: 45776
South Korea: 36677

Other notable developments include India pushing past Germany and Japan for the first time, stall of Russian military spending growth, and further increases to rampant Saudi spending.
 
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antiterror13

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I am really surprised how big Saudi spent on defence in 2014 ... over $80B?
For the rest, I am not too surprised ... is it based on PPP?
I tried to download the list but no luck
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Lethe

Lethe

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antiterror13 said:
I am really surprised how big Saudi spent on defence in 2014 ... over $80B?
For the rest, I am not too surprised ... is it based on PPP?
I tried to download the list but no luck
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You should just be able to click the link (not right-click -> save as) towards the bottom of the page and it will download an Excel spreadsheet.

My list is drawn from the table using current (2014) exchange rates, but there is another table using constant (2011) USD which paints a slightly different picture. There is no PPP table.

Regarding Saudi Arabia ... I think I will abide by the old advice of if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. ;)
 
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