This is kind of surprising to me after having read the short article.
I think that's in trillions. Someone will have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I:m, pretty sure that it is.Global military spending surged to a record $1,464bn last year, with the US maintaining its position as the world's leading arms spender, a report by a Swedish monitoring group has said.
China became the world's second biggest military buyer, increasing its spending by 10 per cent to an estimated $84.9 bn last year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) said on Monday.
Now that doesn't surprise me at all.
Here's the link:
It's a short read.
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