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China has become the world's
fifth-largest arms exporter, a
respected Sweden-based think
tank said on Monday, its highest
ranking since the Cold War, with
Pakistan the main recipient.
China's volume of weapons
exports between 2008 and 2012
rose 162 percent compared to the
previous five year period, with
its share of the global arms trade
rising from 2 percent to 5
percent, the Stockholm
International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) said.
China replaces Britain in the top
five arms-dealing countries
between 2008 and 2012, a group
dominated by the United States
and Russia, which accounted for
30 percent and 26 percent of
weapons exports, SIPRI said.
"China is establishing itself as a
significant arms supplier to a
growing number of important
recipient states," Paul Holtom,
director of the SIPRI Arms
Transfers Program, said in a
statement.
The shift, outlined in SIPRI's
Trends in International Arms
Transfers report, marks China's
first time as a top-five arms
exporter since the think tank's
1986-1990 data period.
Now the world's second-largest
economy, China's rise has come
with a new sense of military
assertiveness with a growing
budget to develop modern
warfare equipment including
aircraft carriers and drones.
At the Zhuhai air show in
southern China in November,
Chinese attack helicopters,
missiles, unmanned aerial
vehicles and air defenses were on
public show for the first time.
SIPRI maintains a global arms
transfers database base that
tracks arms exports back to the
1950s. It averages data over five-
year periods because arms sales
vary by year.
fifth-largest arms exporter, a
respected Sweden-based think
tank said on Monday, its highest
ranking since the Cold War, with
Pakistan the main recipient.
China's volume of weapons
exports between 2008 and 2012
rose 162 percent compared to the
previous five year period, with
its share of the global arms trade
rising from 2 percent to 5
percent, the Stockholm
International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) said.
China replaces Britain in the top
five arms-dealing countries
between 2008 and 2012, a group
dominated by the United States
and Russia, which accounted for
30 percent and 26 percent of
weapons exports, SIPRI said.
"China is establishing itself as a
significant arms supplier to a
growing number of important
recipient states," Paul Holtom,
director of the SIPRI Arms
Transfers Program, said in a
statement.
The shift, outlined in SIPRI's
Trends in International Arms
Transfers report, marks China's
first time as a top-five arms
exporter since the think tank's
1986-1990 data period.
Now the world's second-largest
economy, China's rise has come
with a new sense of military
assertiveness with a growing
budget to develop modern
warfare equipment including
aircraft carriers and drones.
At the Zhuhai air show in
southern China in November,
Chinese attack helicopters,
missiles, unmanned aerial
vehicles and air defenses were on
public show for the first time.
SIPRI maintains a global arms
transfers database base that
tracks arms exports back to the
1950s. It averages data over five-
year periods because arms sales
vary by year.
