Chinese Weapons Reaching ‘Near-Parity’ with West

[BATMAN]

Chinese Weapons Reaching ‘Near-Parity’ with West: Study

By Jacques Klopp, AFP:

China is beginning to export its own weapon designs, including armed drones, worldwide and is reaching “near-parity” with the West in terms of military technology, according to a report on Tuesday.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies said that China’s official defence budget of $145 billion (137 billion euros) last year was 1.8 times higher than those of South Korea and Japan combined.

It also accounted for more than a third of Asia’s total military spending in 2016, the IISS annual Military Balance report said, adding that spending in Asia grew by five to six percentage points a year between 2012 and 2016.

Total global military spending instead fell by 0.4 percent in real terms in 2016 compared to 2015, largely due to reductions in the Middle East.

“China’s military progress highlights that Western dominance in the field of advanced weapons systems can no longer be taken for granted,” IISS director John Chipman said at a presentation in London.

 

[BATMAN]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-weapons-reaching-near-parity-west-study-135238342.html

China is beginning to export its own weapon designs, including armed drones, worldwide and is reaching "near-parity" with the West in terms of military technology, according to a report on Tuesday.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies said that China's official defence budget of $145 billion (137 billion euros) last year was 1.8 times higher than those of South Korea and Japan combined.

It also accounted for more than a third of Asia's total military spending in 2016, the IISS annual Military Balance report said, adding that spending in Asia grew by five to six percentage points a year between 2012 and 2016.

Total global military spending instead fell by 0.4 percent in real terms in 2016 compared to 2015, largely due to reductions in the Middle East.

"China's military progress highlights that Western dominance in the field of advanced weapons systems can no longer be taken for granted," IISS director John Chipman said at a presentation in London.

"An emerging threat for deployed Western forces is that with China looking to sell more abroad, they may confront more advanced military systems, in more places, and operated by a broader range of adversaries," Chipman said.

The report found that in terms of air power "China appears to be reaching near-parity with the West".

It said one of China's air-to-air missiles had no Western equivalent and that China had introduced a type of short-range missile that "only a handful of leading aerospace nations are able to develop".

It said China was also developing "what could be the world's longest range air-to-air missile".

- Chinese exports to Africa -

The report noted that Chinese military exports to Africa last year "were moving from the sale of Soviet-era designs to the export of systems designed in China".

It said that Chinese-made armed drones had been seen in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.

The report also noted that European states are "only gradually" increasing their defence spending.

"While Europe was one of the three regions in the world where defence spending rose in 2015-16, European defence spending remains modest as a proportion of the continent's GDP," the study said.

In 2016, IISS found that only two European NATO states -- Greece and Estonia -- met the aim of spending 2.0 percent of their GDP on defence.

This was down from four European states that met the target in 2015 -- Britain, Greece, Estonia and Poland.

Britain dipped to 1.98 percent of GDP, according to IISS calculations, although that figure was immediately disputed by Britain's defence ministry.

But the IISS said it was more important that countries focus on upgrading their military equipment.

"This is made more urgent because of the degree to which Western states have reduced their equipment and personnel numbers since the Cold War," it said.

@MastanKhan @Khafee @Windjammer

 

[XDescendantX]

As I've said before, China will leapfrog the U.S. 5-10 years from now.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Chinese Weapons Reaching ‘Near-Parity’ with West: Study

By Jacques Klopp, AFP:

China is beginning to export its own weapon designs, including armed drones, worldwide and is reaching “near-parity” with the West in terms of military technology, according to a report on Tuesday.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies said that China’s official defence budget of $145 billion (137 billion euros) last year was 1.8 times higher than those of South Korea and Japan combined.

It also accounted for more than a third of Asia’s total military spending in 2016, the IISS annual Military Balance report said, adding that spending in Asia grew by five to six percentage points a year between 2012 and 2016.

Total global military spending instead fell by 0.4 percent in real terms in 2016 compared to 2015, largely due to reductions in the Middle East.

“China’s military progress highlights that Western dominance in the field of advanced weapons systems can no longer be taken for granted,” IISS director John Chipman said at a presentation in London.

Well they've had 68 years of looking at tech...it's not like they started yesterday.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

that China had introduced a type of short-range missile that "only a handful of leading aerospace nations are able to develop

What is this short-range missile being referenced here?

 

[lonelyman]

China can never match with Western technologies. .....

Never say never, in USA everything is so expensive. Entry level welders charge government $100 an hour for war ship, the pentagon even paid some janitors $5000 a month. China built 22000 km high speed rail network within 9 years, in USA even a small new bridge is celebrated, how long does it take and how much it costs for a SINGLE New York metro station Fulton Center - that made national news, 14 years and 1.4 billion. In China, whole brand new metro LINES pop up in each city every year and with half the cost.

Chinese people came from an humble beginning, but they are smart and work hard, after 100 years of struggle, we finally found a way that works. What could those western engineers do that Chinese counterparts cannot do, costing less.

Reality on the ground is you get things done in China quicker, faster with a third fraction of cost, people willing to worker longer and harder to better themselves, not relying on government handouts. For the same amount of work, you are not competitive at all, thus the bullshit on currency manipulation, IP rights.

And China is still a developing country after 30 years growth, still advancing every day, with the single minded focus to return to the past glory.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

butt-hurt much? it's only going to be a matter of time.

No doubt about that.

But I listened to the whole press conference, and for me, it seemed the same China-alarmism.

They were trying, all they can, to force western countries to increase spending.

 

[lonelyman]

This is called Communism. Even Stalin did the same. In democracy very difficult to achieve this because people are vote bank.

Technology is something you are achieving through freedom not by forced labour. That is why USSR couldn't withstand the change. Same for arabs.

Continue to live in your dream, only you can do technology and Chinese are all slave labor. Did you even ever travel abroad?

Reality on the ground is in China people are working harder to better themselves with a sense of hope like US in 1920s, now you are full of free-riders and wall street banksters, military industry parasites...

We will see in another 20 years.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

This is called Communism. Even Stalin did the same. In democracy very difficult to achieve this because people are vote bank.

Technology is something you are achieving through freedom not by forced labour. That is why USSR couldn't withstand the change. Same for arabs.

There must have been a lot of freedom under Hitler's regime.

 

[shadows888]

This is called Communism. Even Stalin did the same. In democracy very difficult to achieve this because people are vote bank.

Technology is something you are achieving through freedom not by forced labour. That is why USSR couldn't withstand the change. Same for arabs.

Never heard so much bs in my life.

 

[schoolboy]

Perhaps one day but based on public information parity seems far from likely at this moment.

Most Chinese military products are reverse engineered approximates with little or no proven operational record and no major operators outside China. US hardware is not only highly war-tested but in service with dozens of frontline countries. It's true their hardware is more expensive but they have correspondingly larger budgets.

Anyway quality of hardware is only good upto a point and what matters in wartime is training, tactics and C&C. The US spends a huge amount of money on this alone and that is quite hard to reverse engineer.

Never say never, in USA everything is so expensive. Entry level welders charge government $100 an hour for war ship, the pentagon even paid some janitors $5000 a month. China built 22000 km high speed rail network within 9 years, in USA even a small new bridge is celebrated, how long does it take and how much it costs for a SINGLE New York metro station fulton center - that made national news, 14 years and 1.4 billion. In China, whole brand new metro LINES pop up in each city every year and with a half cost.

That's true but the thread is about military hardware, not subway stations.

Technology is something you are achieving through freedom not by forced labour. That is why USSR couldn't withstand the change. Same for arabs.

I agree. Communist economic policy simply does not incentivize innovation as much as the US-style capitalist culture does. Innovation requires not only money but also the promise of more money and freedom from big brother standing behind your shoulder. As a matter of fact many technological advancements in the US have been by immigrants from ex-communist countries.

There must have been a lot of freedom under Hitler's regime.

You are confusing slave labour with forced research.

Most german technological innovation was done by private companies in Germany that operated on a capitalist economy no different from the US. The men and women who did the research were private employees and paid well, got patents, led good lifestyles. Many were Nazis though some were not.

 

[艹艹艹]

China is still a developing country and we are still behind the developed countries
Hope that the developed countries to ignore China, don't pay too much attention to China.

We will pose no threat to you

 

[AndrewJin]

China is still a developing country and we are still behind the developed countries
Hope that the developed countries to ignore China, don't pay too much attention to China.

We will pose no threat to you

Yes, China is only a developing country, no attention is needed from those drama queens in the West!

 

[terranMarine]

I wonder if it is the insecurity which harbors inside them that they need to keep telling us that *fact* just to feel good or secure about themselves or the country they worship. As a matter of fact China cannot innovate was it not? Or are they trying to rectify these "paid" reports? Whatever the motive or psyche i personally & strongly support this belittling I'm getting tired of these overestimating news coming from Western analysts about how China is rapidly closing gaps. I welcome the likes of the non caughtable US dominance mindset. On a side note, why hasn't Russia, China and DPRK invaded by the US so far? You would have thought the US should have obliterated these axis of evil by now.

 

[TaiShang]

China is a developing country with lots of development aspect of national rejuvenation have yet to be completed.

The US is the sole superpower with the capacity of fighting and defeating the ISIS and al-Nusra in Syria. On this, we are counting on Trump to come up with a radical solution that would involve putting boots on the at ground and show the world that MAGA is here to stay.

China's aim by the mid-2020s is to ensure a moderately prosperous society and national unification.