{"id":596,"date":"2005-03-03T23:56:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-21T00:22:04","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T05:22:04","slug":"looming-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Looming on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China, begging to start <a href=\\\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=516&#038;ncid=731&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/ap\/20050304\/ap_on_re_as\/china_military\\\">another arms race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China will increase spending on its military by 12.6 percent this year to $29.9 billion, a government spokesman said Friday, adding to a series of recent annual double-digit rises.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Beijing expands its military to back up its frequent threats to attack self-ruled Taiwan, which the communist mainland claims as part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Jiang Enzhu, a spokesman for China&#8217;s parliament, disclosed the budget figure at a news conference on the eve of the opening of the legislature&#8217;s annual session. Jiang didn&#8217;t give any details of how the military intended to spend the money.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s total military spending is believed to be as much as several times the announced figure.<\/p>\n<p>China has announced double-digit increases in military spending nearly every year for more than a decade as it modernizes the 2.5-million-member People&#8217;s Liberation Army, the world&#8217;s biggest fighting force.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has spent billions of dollars on acquiring Russian-made fighter jets, submarines and other high-tech weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note to self:  at least they were on our side in <a href=<\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0087985\/\\\"><em>Red Dawn<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, begging to start another arms race. China will increase spending on its military by 12.6 percent this year to $29.9 billion, a government spokesman said Friday, adding to a series of recent annual double-digit rises. The announcement comes as Beijing expands its military to back up its frequent threats to attack self-ruled Taiwan, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}