Tokyo worried about rising Chinese military budget

Japanese Defense Minister Itunori Onodera expressed concern about the growth of military spending in China and the lack of transparency in this matter, reports TASS.

Behind a large increase in China’s military spending is the large-scale and rapid increase in the potential of the armed forces, active advancement into the ocean. All of this is accompanied by opacity and causes great concern in the international community and in our region, including Japan,

said Onodera at a press conference.

According to him, "there are also indications that the officially announced defense expenditures are no more than a part of the military budget of China."

We will continue to exert influence on him in cooperation with the countries concerned, seeking from China to increase transparency and comply with the rules of international behavior,

added the minister.

Recall, on Monday, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Li Keqiang, said at the session of the All-China Assembly that Beijing this year increased its defense allocations by 8,1% compared to last year. Military spending will amount to 1,1 trillion. yuan ($ 175 billion). According to this indicator, China is in second place in the world after the United States.

Comments

[Vard]

After the Second World War ... it seems that Japan has lost the right to such statements ... especially about transparency ... maybe they also have the keys to the room where the money is ... to give ...

[maxim947]

Tokyo worried about rising Chinese military budget

If you're worried, go sit down by the river. And the flowing water will carry your anxiety away.
(Joe Koichis, Stockbridge Mansi, Mohican)

[dog breeder]

Well, they can claim it, feeling behind the back of the "world hegemon."

[Nasrat]

Quote: dog breeder

Well, they can claim it, feeling behind the back of the "world hegemon."

The brotherhood of any "world hegemon" will be trampled, now it’ll score an arrow ...


to the extreme - for meditating to death ...

[vlad66]

Some kind of preoccupied steel, it’s clear the stump that yapati yapushki napusyvayut.

We will continue to influence it in cooperation with interested countries,

[Baloo]

Quote: Vard

After the Second World War ... it seems that Japan has lost the right to such statements ... especially about transparency ...

and humanism. It’s better for the Japanese to deal with the consequences of Fokushima in surrealism. China? The Chinese nation is disciplined. At the call of the Communist Party, a destructive earthquake simultaneously jumped up and again in Japan. And what if, by order of the kompatii, they float to surrender to the illustrious self-defense forces of Japan?

[bazzbazz]

Are they not worried about China’s population growth? Soon they will have nowhere to live, and here the useful will come in handy)

[voyaka uh]

The population of China is practically not growing. It has stabilized
in the region of 1,3 -1,4 billion

[Baloo]

Quote: voyaka uh

The population of China is practically not growing. It has stabilized
in the region of 1,3 -1,4 billion

Moreover, they are concerned about the slowdown in population growth.

[Cananecat]

There is one population for perpetual hemorrhoids

[bald]

Something preoccupied more and more. Moreover, on opposite sides of the barricades. Some kind of Brownian movement.

[Alex-a832]

For the Japanese, there is only one threat - the presence of US military bases on their islands. It can fly from China, and from Russia, and from the DPRK. They would say no to the American invaders, expel them from their islands, settle territorial issues with Russia and China, and live in peace without looking into other people's military budgets.

[taiga2018]

a country on the territory of which there are no foreign military bases should ensure transparency in front of countries that are simply filled with these very bases ...

[Simon]

What! They are afraid that China will recall the aggression of the forties of the last century. How many Chinese were destroyed, how many chemical experiments carried out on them. Do not do evil to your neighbor - there will be no judgment! Now tremble on your islands

[antivirus]

Seeking from China to increase transparency and comply with the rules of international conduct,

Is there a concern yet?
and this was not the Kyoto massacre!

[Galleon]

Wait a minute, the "fraternal socialist" Vietnam will also make the same claims. He is now friends with the "big boy".

[razved]

Have the Japanese learned to worry about their occupying masters?

[Paranoid50]

If the Japanese find out the real size of China’s military budget, then their anxiety will turn into a panic.

pushing China to increase transparency and implementation rules of international conduct,

And weakly present such a topic to mattresses?

[ALEXANDER ABDRAKHMANOV_2]

Why the Japanese are worried about the military budget of China. Everyone lives according to their prosperity, that they should be guided by the Japanese, as if they are not armed.

[Siberia 9444]

They’ll also remove scalps from you, they also don’t forget who is not forgotten