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The military budget of China, so often touted as the next superpower, is less than one-seventh of that.

But he said China's recent anti-satellite missile test and the rapid expansion in its military budget was sending mixed signals.

But even if it was double, China's yearly military budget would still be only about one-fourth the size of the Pentagon's.

He said that "China's military budget continues a trend of double-digit increases and questions remain about China's strategic intentions. "

A truthful figure would come out too low. "Who would believe that the USSR had such a small military budget? "

But neither the paper nor the accompanying news conference shed much light on what China intends to do with its growing military budget.

Beijing's official military spending is less than one-fifth of the U. S. military budget.

But the debate is starting to leave defenders of the military budget behind.

All it needs to do is divert a small proportion of its military budget or sell a little of its huge stock of US Treasury Bonds.

Fu answered nine questions during the news conference, ranging from tensions with Japan to the military budget.

When the Russian economy collapsed and the military budget was slashed, the START II treaty had turned into a bad deal for them.

India has been rapidly increasing its military budget and broadening its military deployment near the disputed border with China.

Moreover, it can create a destructive cycle, as the capacity of civilian agencies and tools gets hollowed out to feed the military budget.

India's fast-expanding economy and growing military budget offers Russia enormous potential to increase sales of military equipment.

in order to have a chance against China in 20 years our military budget and taxes to pay for it have to go up.

But as our briefing points out (see article), its military budget, in hard-currency terms, is not much bigger than France's.

The criticism was for a sharp rise in public security spending, which for the first time overtook the military budget.

India is one of the world's largest arms bazaars, with a military budget of Rs1, 420bn ($32bn).

SPIEGEL: Are there not more pressing areas where that money could go rather than towards increasing the military budget?

The Pentagon, however, estimates that China's military budget may be as much as three times that amount.

The military budget has been growing at double-digit rates for years, with an 18% rise planned for this year.

The US media are making nervous situation for raising the debt seiling and maintaining the terrible big military budget.

The pacifists urged that we reduce our military budget and recall our troops stationed overseas.

Only 40% or so of the federal budget is what's called discretionary, and that 40% includes the military budget.

trim The government decided to trim its military budget.

In comparison, the U. S. military budget request for 2008 is $481. 4 billion, not including war requests.

The projected five-year budget outlined by Mr. Gates doesn't include an actual decrease in the military budget.

Cut the military budget by a trillion dollars?

Internal security spending has soared to almost 625bn yuan this year, more than the country's official military budget.

We give them food and fuel - they respond by attacking South Korea. They should use their nuclear budget and military budget to buy food.

The latest one was a 12. 7 percent increase [to the military budget].

The US military will bury the Americans with their mega size military budget.

And in 2008 its military budget was $607bn, representing almost half of the world's total military spending.

A cautionary report for those who would slash the military budget here in America.

At about Rmb624. 4bn for 2011, it now exceeds the country's publicly stated military budget, according to finance ministry figures.

The entire military budget for fiscal 2008 is $481. 4 billion.

MSF is a low budget operation because they can't really tax its citizens for a military budget.

But is it true that America has the biggest military budget?

China's official military budget for 2010 is $78 billion, but the Pentagon says China spends much more than that amount.

The continuous increase of China's military budget in the past ten years does not mean China will invade other countries.

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