China’s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America’s Washington’s Blog.
China May Be Closing the Gap on U.S. Military Superiority
Frank Kendall – the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology, and logistics –has repeatedly warned that America’s military advantage over China is evaporating.
The Weekly Standard reports:
While the U.S. military’s budget is being cut, China’s budget has been growing at about 12 percent annually, Kendall said, and may soon be as large as the U.S.’s. China is of particular concern according to the under secretary because “no one’s studied us more — including immediately after the first Gulf War — than the Chinese. And they have been building systems since then designed to counteract some of the things that we have.”
Last month, the Washington Free Beacon reported on a draft of the annual report of the congressional, bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission which found:
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