A Looming Arms Race in East Asia?

A Looming Arms Race in East Asia?

May 14, 2014 02:00 am | Rebecca M. Miller

The answer might surprise you.
David C. KangThe annual SIPRI and IISS reports about military spending have recently been published, and it appears there is an emerging consensus that East Asian countries are engaged in a massive arms buildup and an increasingly volatile arms race, with war increasingly likely. For example, last year, Reuters announced that Asian defense spending had exceeded Europe’s for the first time in modern history. While true, the real cause was that European spending had declined more quickly than East Asian spending, although that headline would not have been nearly as provocative.

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