China's military budget over 3 times that of India, says Pentagon

[Zarvan]

WASHINGTON:Chinahas over the past several decades significantly increased itsdefence budgetwhich is now more than three times that ofIndiaand the country could pose a threat to the US security interest in the region, thePentagonhas said.

China's official defence budget last year was USD 136.3 billion while that of India was USD 38.2 billion, the Pentagon said today in its annual report to the Congress based on its annual assessment of military and security developments involving the giant Asian country.

China has significantly increased its defence budget over the past several decades and now has reached a position to pose threat to the American national security interest in the region, the report said.

Having established a modern defence industry, China has now began exporting arms withPakistanbeing its top importer.

"Pakistan remains China's primary customer for conventional weapons," the Pentagon said yesterday.

Russia's national defence budget the same year was USD 76.3 million and that of Japan was USD 47.6 billion, whereas South Korea's annual defence budget last year was USD 33.4 billion and Taiwan's was USD 10.3 billion, the Pentagon said.

From 2009 to 2013, China signed about USD 14 billion in arms export agreements for conventional weapons systems worldwide, ranging from general purpose materiel to major weapons systems.

China engages in both arms sales and defence industrial cooperation with Islamabad, including F-22P frigates with helicopters, K-8 jet trainers, F-7 fighter aircraft, early warning and control aircraft, main battle tank production, air-to-air missiles, and anti-ship cruise missiles, it said.

"In June 2014, Pakistan started co-producing the first two of fifty Block 2 JF-17s, which is an upgraded version of the Block I JF-17," it said.

In 2014 and the coming years, China's arms exports will likely to increase modestly as China's domestic defence industry improves. Chinese defence firms are marketing and selling arms throughout the world with the bulk of their sales to the Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan African regions.

China is the largest supplier of arms to theSub-Saharan Africa region, which was China's second highest sales region between 2009-2013 with about USD 4 billion in sales, it said.

Sub-Saharan African countries view China as a provider of low-cost weapons with generally fewer end-use monitoring conditions relative to other arms suppliers.

China tends to be relatively flexible with regard to payment arrangements. China's top customers in this region are South Sudan, Sudan and Ethiopia, it added.


China's military budget over 3 times that of India, says Pentagon - The Economic Times

Every one knows this What is new in this ??

 

[ito]

If India grows economically with a healthy rate, India should catch up with China in defence spending

In my post I said our GDP is 5 times bigger, yet we are only spending 3 times more.

That means India is spending a considerably larger percentage of GDP on defence than China is.

Defence spending cannot be measured in terms of GDP ratios. The question is can the country sustain that level defense spending and does it require that spending? If no, it is better not to spend that amount of money on defense. If yes, there is no harm. Saudi spends 10% of GDP on its defense, US, Russia spend 5% of their GDP. And India spends one of the lowest in the world in terms of GDP ratio.

 

[Suman]

US already creating a lots of noise about India and China in past two days.
It seems they are too uncomfortable with the next visit of Indian PM in to China.

We know what we are doing ,we dont need others advice for our foreign policy

Wanted to create fuss between the two countries: "jealous"

 

[Luca1]

Wanted to create fuss between the two countries: "jealous"

India need to pick up its defense spending to catch up with China.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Defence spending cannot be measured in terms of GDP ratios. The question is can the country sustain that level defense spending and does it require that spending? If no, it is better not to spend that amount of money on defense. If yes, there is no harm. Saudi spends 10% of GDP on its defense, US, Russia spend 5% of their GDP. And India spends one of the lowest in the world in terms of GDP ratio.

It's better to consider it as defence spending as a percentage of the Government budget, since you don't have access to the entire GDP to spend.

China's Government budget is currently over $2 trillion, and we spend around 5% of that on defence. Nearly the lowest defence spending to government budget ratio in the world.

 

[Suman]

India need to pick up its defense spending to catch up with China.

Its okay my friend China is far ahead of India, I totally accept it, but, please know we are trying to catch up with China, it takes a long while, our Congress looted the nation and we still are making good progress with Modi in power

 

[ito]

It's better to consider it as defence spending as a percentage of the Government budget, since you don't have access to the entire GDP to spend.

China's Government budget is currently over $2 trillion, and we spend around 5% of that on defence. Nearly the lowest defence spending to government budget ratio in the world.

Though you have a point...there is no reason not to believe that government budget will not be proportionate to GDP size.

 

[Tridibans]

In my post I said our GDP is 5 times bigger, yet we are only spending 3 times more.

That means India is spending a considerably larger percentage of GDP on defence than China is.

We are spending 1.8% of our GDP..... which is a pretty conservative figure. Our spending should be around 2.1% atleast. Expect by 2020, when our economy will be 3 trillion (worst case scenario). our defence spending should be around 75 to 80 billion $.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Here is how China spends the government budget:

Inside China's $2.2 trillion budget - Economy

Defence spending is the LOWEST of all the major categories above.

As you can imagine, on a defence forum, most Chinese members here want us to increase our defence spending, and I am one of them.

Being rich without having a strong military will just end with another Century of Humilation.

 

[The_Sidewinder]

In my post I said our GDP is 5 times bigger, yet we are only spending 3 times more.

That means India is spending a considerably larger percentage of GDP on defence than China is.

India spends only 1.44 percent on GDP on defencewhich is lower as well. On chineese side spending must be even lower.

Here is how China spends the government budget:

Inside China's $2.2 trillion budget - Economy

Defence spending is the LOWEST of all the major categories above.

As you can imagine, on a defence forum, most Chinese members here want us to increase our defence spending, and I am one of them.

Being rich without having a strong military will just end with another Century of Humilation.

Agreed.

 

[The Great One]

The proper comparison should be between tax to gdp ratios. China has 17% and India 17.7%. While China spends about 1.25%, India about 1.75%. However China is believed to spend the same on 'internal security'.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Our GDP is over 5 times larger, so what is the big fuss with a 3 times larger military expenditure?

 

[shree835]

China's GDP is 5 times bigger than India's.

Yet our defense spending is only 3 times more?

We don't spend enough as a percentage of GDP and government budget.

defense spending is only 3 times more just to show the world ... No body know what the real fact.

 

[Echo_419]

The US is doing China a favour, drum up the threat and make india spend more on military than infrastruture that will drive up the economy.

Lol we are not China or Pakistan who will use western support to counter neighbours
& destabilize the region so the West can benefit

In my post I said our GDP is 5 times bigger, yet we are only spending 3 times more.

That means India is spending a considerably larger percentage of GDP on defence than China is.

We are spending around 1.5% of GDP on defense & that's not to much if you know how chaoitic South Asia is

Here is how China spends the government budget:

Inside China's $2.2 trillion budget - Economy

Defence spending is the LOWEST of all the major categories above.

As you can imagine, on a defence forum, most Chinese members here want us to increase our defence spending, and I am one of them.

Being rich without having a strong military will just end with another Century of Humilation.

What comes under Public Security

 

[proud indian94]

I am not saying that from next year we will start spending more than china .i am saying gap will decrease .till now china was increasing its budget in double digits because its economy was growing in double digit.at 5-6% growth china cant sustain with similar increase in defence budget. And china has a army around 22 lakhs, almost double of indian army so obviously it need more budget to pay the salries. There were the time when india and china both have same gdp.china liberalized its market 10 year before us.so gap comes. But it doesnt mean gap will continue to increase .if we grows at higher rate this gap will decrease.