President Joe Biden takes notes during a video summit with President Xi Jinping of China at the White House in November 2021. | DOUG MILLS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Michael T. Klare, The Nation: A Pentagon Report on China Fuels a Military Spending Frenzy in the US
How the media is misrepresenting what’s in the document.
“China to Have 1,500 Nuclear Warheads by 2035: Pentagon.” That was the headline at ABC News on November 29, the day the Department of Defense released the 2022 edition of its annual report on “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China,” also called the China Military Power report. The Pentagon’s claim that China’s nuclear stockpile would jump from some 400 warheads today to an estimated 1,500 in 2035 was widely reported in the popular media and seized upon by military hawks in Congress to clamor for increased military spending. During the first two weeks of December, the House and Senate authorized a fiscal year 2023 Pentagon budget of $858 billion—some $45 billion more than President Biden requested, with most of the added funds earmarked for weaponry to counter China.
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WNU Editor: 2022 will be remembered as the year where the old world geopolitical order was turned upside down. 2023 will be remembered as the year where countries responded to this change by forming alliances and massively expanding their defense budgets. A Pentagon report is not the reason for this "military spending frenzy". But it will be used by US political leaders as one of many reasons why this military buildup is justified.
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