作者 Jon Grevatt 简氏亚太工业记者

    中国已经宣布计划在2007（FY07）财政年度提高防卫开支17.8%达到3509.2亿人民币（454亿美元）。                

     一位主要的东亚防卫专家已经告诉简氏中国防卫开支的增加-被加到最近的武器测试那个军队摧毁空间一颗气象卫星里-是对华盛顿的炫耀信息。

    Huisken，一位在澳洲国家大学战略和国防研究中心资深研究员，说：“这些数字看起来它们像来自一个急不可待国家。在军事开支持续的增加在它的数目上是严重的，并且类似地经常并非看到任何主要动力，没有任何像战争这样一类的危机”。

      Huisken补充说他相信防卫上升会引起华盛顿的关心。

      “它可以容易地假设我们正在朝向在美国和中国之间的一个武器竞赛，”他说。“当然在那里是五角大厦那些说法‘我们科技领先中国一代-不需要烦恼’。但是这一种想法将可以改变，中国在防卫开支上更多资金和更多能力它已经挑战美国宗旨。”

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China unveils 18% rise in defence budget

By Jon Grevatt Jane's Asia-Pacific Industry Reporter

China has announced plans to raise defence spending by 17.8 per cent in Fiscal Year 2007 (FY07) to nearly CNY350.92 billion (USD45.4 billion).

A leading East Asian defence expert has told Jane's that the increases in China's defence spending - added to the recent weapons test in which the military destroyed a weather satellite in space - are blatant messages to Washington.

Ron Huisken, a senior fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, said: "These numbers look like they come from a country in a hurry. This sustained increase in military spending is serious in its magnitude and the like that is often not seen in any major powers in the absence of any crises such as war.”

Huisken added that he believed that the defence rises would cause concern in Washington.

"It could easily be assumed that we are heading for an arms race between the US and China," he said. "Of course there are those that say in the Pentagon 'we are technologically generations ahead of China - there is no need to worry'. But this thinking could change the more money China spends on defence and the more capability it has of challenging US objectives."

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