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Archives by date > 2014 > January > 13th

Pacific Pivot: What Can the US Really Afford While Japan and Taiwan Keep Small Budgets

Jan 13, 2014 14:55 UTC

  • T. X. Hammes, a research fellow at the US National Defense University, asks in the National Interest:

“[T]he discussion of military strategy [in response to Chinese expansionism] should force the deeper and more important discussion of whether or not the United States can afford/accomplish the strategy of dominance we have used in maritime affairs in Asia since WWII.”

  • Japan’s latest modest defense budget increase made headlines, but their military spending still amounts to just about 1% of GDP. In that light:

Given China’s rapid economic and military rise, Japan’s and Taiwan’s stagnant defence spending – as well as the recent sequestration in the United States – would seem to be a major cause for concern. Seen from the perspective of traditional realism, the actions of Japan and Taiwan might be seen as dangerously complacent.

  • It took months of negotiation but the US and South Korea finally reached an agreement on the amount the Koreans will contribute to their own defense.

  • The Chinese air force (PLAAF) is simplifying its complicated organizational structure [PDF].

  • According to Reuters, the US Justice Department and DoD’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service are investigating Honeywell’s move to China in 2009 of the production of thermal sensors used in F-35s. The company since then relocated that production to the US.

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