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Sabre-rattling will draw near with globalisation

Posted by Matt in April 30th, 2008

Some of the world’s major concentrations of military power and potential hot spots are in Asia: for example on the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Straits and between India and Pakistan. Strong economic growth in our region is leading to the build-up of modern military forces in China and India, as well as in South Korea and Japan and some South-East Asian countries.

The region now spends more than $285 billion a year on defence (more than NATO, excluding the US) with China alone accounting for $128 billion of this amount (next come Japan with $43 billion, South Korea with $26 billion and India with $24 billion).

At least one former defence minister, Kim Beazley, thinks a regional arms race is taking place. We are certainly seeing the introduction of advanced conventional weapons systems to the region, which will erode our margin of technological superiority.

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