The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute announced that military spending by various countries around the world last year hit a record high overall, and the annual growth rate also set a record. My country’s military spending increased by 11%.
Scholars also believe that my country will definitely be under pressure to increase defense spending, especially if Trump is elected as the next US president, and his attitude towards Taiwan’s self-rescue will become more prominent.
Huang Jiezheng, an associate professor at the Institute of International Affairs and Strategy at Tamkang University, said that the United States currently does not want to get involved militarily in international conflicts, and often they use defense spending to judge whether allies, including Taiwan, are positioned. to protect themselves; in the future, the Lai Ching-te government will inevitably face threats from foreign countries defense budget in GDP.
Su Ziyun, director of the Institute of Defense Strategy and Resources at the National Institute of Defense and Security, believes that there is no need to be too pessimistic about the increase in military spending of total military spending, and the other is spending the military of the two competing parties is unbalanced; only both are unfair at the same time.
Su Ziyun said that military spending can be considered an important indicator of the security situation, especially the military expansion of authoritarian countries. For example, in 1933, when Hitler came to power, the German defense budget was US$250 million. Before the war started in 1939, it had increased to US$4.3 billion, an increase of seventeen. The CCP’s defense budget increased from US$28 billion in 1997 to US$296 billion last year, an increase of 10.5 times.
He said that another situation that leads to war is the imbalance in the strength of the army between the other parties. For example, when World War II began in 1939, British military spending was only US$8.8 billion, less than half of Germany’s. When the Russo-Ukrainian War began, Ukrainian military spending was only US$4.3 billion, and Russia was the US. $75 billion. On the other hand, if the two sides are evenly matched, even if their military expenditures are high, conflict may not break out: in 1985, for example, the Soviet Union spent US $320 billion on military expenditures, and the United States also spent US $300 billion, but the two sides did not go directly to war.
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2024-04-22 16:42:42
