{"id":1478,"date":"2014-11-12T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:46:10","slug":"chinas-military-budget-could-soon-be-as-big-as-americas-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America&#8217;s Washington&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/11\/will-chinese-military-surpass-america.html\">China&#8217;s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America&#8217;s Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: normal; color: #000099; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">China May Be Closing the Gap on U.S. Military Superiority<\/h3>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Frank Kendall \u2013 the Pentagon\u2019s undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology, and logistics \u2013<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"has\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/28\/us-usa-defense-china-idUSBREA0R1ZE20140128\" target=\"_blank\">has<\/a>\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"repeatedly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-02-11\/china-military-spending-threatens-u-s-superiority-kendall-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly<\/a>\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"warned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/pentagon-military-losing-technological-superiority-china_818298.html\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a>\u00a0that America\u2019s military advantage over China is evaporating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The Weekly Standard\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"reports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/pentagon-military-losing-technological-superiority-china_818298.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px 3em 0px 3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">While the U.S. military\u2019s budget is being cut, China\u2019s budget has been growing at about 12 percent annually, Kendall said, and may soon be as large as the U.S.\u2019s<\/strong>. China is of particular concern according to the under secretary because \u201cno one\u2019s studied us more \u2014 including immediately after the first Gulf War \u2014 than the Chinese. And they have been building systems since then designed to counteract some of the things that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Last month, the Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"reported\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-military-buildup-shifts-balance-of-power-in-asia-in-beijings-favor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on a draft of the annual report of the congressional, bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission which found:<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America&#8217;s Washington&#8217;s Blog. China May Be Closing the Gap on U.S. Military Superiority Frank Kendall \u2013 the Pentagon\u2019s undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology, and logistics \u2013has\u00a0repeatedly\u00a0warned\u00a0that America\u2019s military advantage over China is evaporating. The Weekly Standard\u00a0reports: While the U.S. military\u2019s budget is being cut, China\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,525,1063],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-military","tag-military-expenditures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}