Hmm, it's interesting. Knowing that Turkey is behind the rebels of Syria. Does China wanna mend the damage to Arabian world caused by its veto? Or secretly buying Turkey to leave Syria alone?
According to CIA data, in 2011, the GDP of China is 5.88 trillion USD. It's around 1.5%, and of course you can argue Chinese government calculated its GDP in a different standard. But they also calculate their military expenditure differently. Note that the sallary of Chinese military personnels...
Hmm, buying weapons is probably the easiest as well as the fastest way of improving military power. But obviously not the best way. It's nice for India to have the money and political environment to get advanced weapons from other countries. But it seems to me this convenience also brings a lot...