Everyone knows about China’s arms build-up. Beijing’s defence budget has risen eightfold in 20 years. In that time it has become comfortably the world’s second-biggest spender on the military. In 2012, the country accounted for nearly 10 per cent of global expenditure, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which monitors defence spending. That was more than Russia and the UK combined, although only a quarter of what the supposedly cash-strapped US laid out on its armed forces, according to official figures.
人人都知道中國在擴充軍備。中國國防預算在20年間增加了7倍，輕鬆躍居全球軍費支出第二高的國家。觀察國防支出的斯德哥爾摩國際和平研究所(Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)表示，2012年，中國佔據全球國防支出的近10%。從官方數字來看，儘管中國的軍費僅爲理論上資金緊張的美國的四分之一，但已經超過俄羅斯和英國兩國軍費的總和。
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