Posted on 02/22/2015 12:33:46 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
LONDON -- Although inflation-adjusted defense spending is falling in the U.S. and Europe, global defense outlays rose in 2014, driven by large increases in three countries: China, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
China continues to far outspend its Asian neighbors, with its share of the region's defense spending rising from 28% in 2010 to 38% in 2014, according to the annual Military Balance report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British think tank.
http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20150219-India-s-got-the-bright-stuff/Politics-Economy/What-economic-slowdown-China-s-military-still-on-a-spending-spree
Everything in America seems to be made in China, anymore.
In every single store.
Someone, please stand up for America.
Because the Chicoms and Russkies are preparing for war. That’s the only explanation why they’re cutting all spending but are INCREASING spending, even as their economies are falling, in their military.
Yep we are buying the weapons they will use against us
Ya know, instead of whining about it, just buy American.
“Everything in America seems to be made in China, anymore.
In every single store.”
China is losing its manufacturing base. Labor cost are rising without the rise in worker productivity and product quality seen in other places
Well just last year, America racked up the largest two-country trade deficit in recorded history:
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
-342,632,500,000.00. That is a MASSIVE number.
You may say China is losing its manufacturing base.
It certainly doesn’t seem that way, from the numbers.
Who? The shoppers at the mall or the guys in uniform that are facing unemployment?
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/army-mulls-cutting-troops-in-alaska-officials-say-1.331058
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