Tai Ming Cheung quoted on military budgets
Sydney Morning Herald quotes IGCC's Tai Ming Cheung
03/05/2010
Robert Saiget,
The Sydney Morning Herald
China on Thursday announced its smallest defence budget increase in years amid national belt-tightening, and vowed that its rapid military modernisation posed no threat to other countries.
The proposed military budget for 2010 is 532.1 billion yuan (77.9 billion US dollars), up 7.5 percent from actual defence spending in 2009, a government spokesman said.
The figure breaks a string of double-digit increases going back many years that has caused worry among China's neighbours and the United States over the objectives of an effort to rapidly modernise its once-backward armed forces.
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Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at IGCC. He is in charge of the institute’s Minerva project "The Evolving Relationship Between Technology and National Security in China: Innovation, Defense Transformation, and China’s Place in the Global Technology Order." This five-year research and training program examining China’s efforts to become a world-class science and technology power is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
