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Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, has pointed out that China’s military spending was as high as $240 billion in 2013. That is compared with official figures of $119.5 billion.

China, he recently said, is “supplementing its traditional exports of basic battlefield equipment such as small arms, artillery and armored vehicles to include more advanced examples of long-range multiple-launch rocket artillery, improved surface-to-air missile systems and anti-ship cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, several of which are armed variants.”