{"id":40191,"date":"2014-03-06T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40191"},"modified":"2014-03-06T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:00:35","slug":"china-to-increase-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40191","title":{"rendered":"China to increase military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/china-says-2014-military-budget-rise-12-2-004944448--sector.html\">Reuters<\/a> reports that President Xi Jinping of China announced that the People&#8217;s Republic will be spending more on their military in coming years, the biggest jump in three years;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The government said it would increase the defense budget by 12.2 percent this year to 808.23 billion yuan ($131.57 billion), as China seeks to develop more high-tech weapons and to beef up coastal and air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>The increase follows a nearly unbroken run of double-digit hikes in the Chinese defense budget, second only to the United States in size, for the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> China&#8217;s military is not made up of &#8220;boy scouts with spears&#8221;, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a briefing in response to Japan&#8217;s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some foreigners always expect China to be a baby scout,&#8221; Qin said. &#8220;In that way, how can we safeguard national security and world peace?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement comes while China is asserting it&#8217;s power in the South China Sea and prompting reactions from the US Pentagon, who, by the way was in Congress yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pentagon-budget-4-ways-white-house-wants-change-224608839.html\">justifying their own cuts<\/a> to the military. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that President Xi Jinping of China announced that the People&#8217;s Republic will be spending &hellip; <a title=\"China to increase military spending\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40191\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China to increase military spending<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}