{"id":23020,"date":"2014-03-10T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23020"},"modified":"2014-03-10T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:12:17","slug":"whos-scared-of-chinas-military-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/whos-scared-of-chinas-military-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Scared of China&#8217;s Military Budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When news hit last week that China&#8217;s defense spending will increase by 12.2 percent this year to $132 billion, pundits and politicians told us to be scared. I&#8217;m not:<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-interrupt format-m pos-left\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cf.datawrapper.de\/ZYRrT\/1\/\" height=\"380\" width=\"580\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/03\/statistics-that-explained-the-world-this-week-104461.html#.Ux24edyT5Z8\">Via Ian Bremmer in Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this is using a conservative estimate of U.S. military and national security spending. There is much in the black budget that would add to the gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When news hit last week that China&#8217;s defense spending will increase by 12.2 percent this year to $132 billion, pundits and politicians told us to be scared. I&#8217;m not: Via Ian Bremmer in Politico. Note that this is using a conservative estimate of U.S. military and national security spending. There is much in the black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23022,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23020\/revisions\/23022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}