{"id":34551,"date":"2017-02-14T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/chinas-military-progress-challenges-western-dominance-says-iiss"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:52:34","slug":"chinas-military-progress-challenges-western-dominance-says-iiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/chinas-military-progress-challenges-western-dominance-says-iiss","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s military progress challenges Western dominance, says IISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-military-progress-challenges-western-dominance-says-iiss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese military technology is reaching \u201cnear-parity\u201d with the West, a new report from the London-based think tank IISS has found. Western dominance in advanced military systems can no longer be taken for granted.<\/p>\n<p>China accounted for a third of Asia\u2019s military spending in 2016 and was looking to sell more arms abroad, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s overall defense budget last year was $145 billion (137 billion euros), 1.8 times higher than South Korea and Japan combined. China\u2019s spending was topped only by the United States which spent $604.5 billion (572 billion euros) on defense in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/chinas-military-progress-challenges-western-dominance-says-iiss\/a-37552817\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/chinas-military-progress-challenges-wes...a-37552817<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese military technology is reaching \u201cnear-parity\u201d with the West, a new report from the London-based think tank IISS has found. Western dominance in advanced military systems can no longer be taken for granted. China accounted for a third of Asia\u2019s military spending in 2016 and was looking to sell more arms abroad, the International Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48886,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions\/48886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}