The current 2024 defense spending budget for China is 16,655400 million yuan, an increase of 72%, the same increase as last year. This is the ninth consecutive year that China's defense budget has maintained single-digit growth. 16655.400 million is equivalent to 2313At $500 million, it is undoubtedly the second largest in the world. However, the United States' military spending in 2024 will be as high as $886 billion, which is less than 30% of the United States' spending.
And China has an unforgettable understanding of the five words "backwardness will be beaten". The truth that there are eggs under the nest is well known to the Chinese. The money saved in military spending will be paid out tenfold or even hundredfold in the form of war reparations. In this rapidly changing international situation, 72% increase with 16655The total amount of 400 million is really a bit low, and in order to meet the challenges and protect China's interests, China needs more military spending.
The growth rate is lower than the mainstream level, the proportion of GDP is lower than that of defeated countries such as Japan and South Korea, and China's military spending is really a bit low.
The Russian military's performance in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been quite bad, with a series of surface ships being sunk by small unmanned boats, and the Black Sea Fleet is on the verge of demilitarization by Ukraine. The Russian Air Force suffered heavy losses, and the Russian Army also made frequent tricks in this war. Russia has proved that Russia is not as strong as Russia touted, and Russia is no longer qualified to be called the second in the world.
But NATO, which vigorously supports Ukraine, has also proved with practical actions that NATO is far from being as fanciful as NATO touted. Expensive NATO ** performance is not much better than cheap Russian **. And in order to support Ukraine, a group of NATO countries have begun to pick up the active equipment of the army, which also shows that the war potential of NATO countries is far less high than that touted by NATO.
And the fatigue of the United States was undoubtedly evident long before the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Before the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan was completed, the Afghan ** supported by the United States collapsed. The Argentine conflict, the Burmese civil war, the Nigerien civil war, and Venezuela's planned annexation of Essequibo ...... in Guyana
The United States has chosen to sit idly by and watch a series of regional issues. The Yemeni Houthis who jumped on the United States head-on, and the United States chose to calm down. It is completely inconsistent with the previous image of the "international police" of the United States if there is a conflict. The United States, which was once hegemonic, cannot be hegemonic.
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has become no longer stable, and the ambitions of many countries, which were originally suppressed by the United States, are growing vigorously. Geopolitical conflicts are becoming increasingly intense, and the world situation is changing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. Therefore, in the third year of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the military spending of all major countries in the world is growing.
In 2023, the increase in ** fee is only 72% is not too high. Japan's military budget for 2024 is 77 trillion days (about 54 billion US dollars), an increase of 165%；India's defense budget for fiscal year 2024 increased to $594 trillion rupees ($72.6 billion), up 13 per cent; Compared with Japan and India, the increase in the Chinese ** fee is not worth mentioning at all.
The United States, which has always been far ahead of the rest of the world, will hit a new high defense budget of $886 billion in 2024, accounting for 40% of global military spending. The growth rate of U.S. ** fees in 2024 is relatively low, only 33%, but the US military spending in 2023 will increase by as much as 119%。
The total amount of the medium ** fee is not small, but the relative amount is not high. The mid-fiscal year 2024 fee is 16,655400 million yuan, about 2313At $500 million, it is undoubtedly the second largest in the world. The U.S. dollar is 886 billion, and the U.S. dollar is far ahead of the world. But China has 1.4 billion people, while the United States has only 35.9 billion people. The population of the United States is less than 1 3 of China's, but its military spending is more than three times that of China! So China's military spending is really not high.
Although the total amount of China ** expenditure is not low, the proportion of GDP is not as good as that of a defeated country like Germany. In 2024, the proportion of GDP will be only 132%, while the world average military spending is 25%, the proportion of medium ** fee is far lower than the world average. In fiscal year 2024, the proportion of GDP in the United States will be 324%, and the proportion of U.S. ** fees has been stable at more than 3% for a long time.
At the urging of the United States, 18 NATO member states have raised the proportion of military spending to 2%. Even Germany, a defeated country in World War II, will have a military expenditure of 734 in 2024As high as $100 million, military spending has accounted for 2% of GDP. China's GDP share is not as good as that of a defeated country like Germany, so China's military spending is really not high at all.
As for the speed of development of China's navy, land, and air forces, it can be called a rocket-like rise. This is not a problem of China, but a problem of NATO and other countries. After all, the proportion of China's military spending is really not very high, it is nothing more than that China does not have the soil for the birth of the military-industrial complex, and the operation of the military-industrial system is relatively efficient. Isn't that what a normal industrial country should be? It is said that it is similar to the slow speed of American shipbuilding in the 1900s.
It's just that now the United States and a series of other countries have hollowed out their industries, resulting in inefficient operation of the military industry.
The cost of American drones is comparable to the cost of Chinese fighter jets. The cost of a Littoral Combat Ship of more than 3,000 tons is comparable to that of the 052D or the European FREMM frigates. The cost of the 20,000-ton San Antonio-class dock landing ship is as high as 2 billion US dollars, while the cost of Italy's 300-ton amphibious assault ship is about 1.2 billion euros. The U.S.-class amphibious assault ship costs up to $4 billion, which is comparable to the Queen-class aircraft carrier.
The greedy and inefficient US-industry complex has made the gap in purchasing power between China and the United States much smaller than the gap in military spending, and the problem is that this is a problem of the United States, not a problem of China. The United States does not want to let those capitalists spit out excess profits, but it thinks that the proportion of China's military expenses is too high, and if China raises the proportion of military expenses to the level of the United States, then the United States may crack in place.
In the eyes of a country like the United States, which has a sick brain, a normal country treats it as a disease. After all, the United States is really pushing itself and others, and the problem is that the United States thinks it is normal.