Press Coverage 2005

China: the next global superpower Estimates of actual Chinese military spending vary widely, but the International Institute for Strategic Studies pegs it at US$62.5 billion in 2004, up US$6.6 billion over the previous year. The comparable figures for the US are US$455 billion and US$51 billion, respectively. That means in 2004 the US' annual increase almost matched China's total outlay.
The First Five Years Over the last year, the Iranian issue has raised concerns about the SCO in Western capitals. It strikes me as strange that one would want to bring into an organization that says its against terrorism... one of the leading terrorist nations in the world, said U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Singapore on the eve of the summit.
China Says Shut Up' Defense Secretary Rumsfeld can now stop pretending he didn't know the answer to the questions he himself asked in June 2005. "Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?" Mr. Rumsfeld asked at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual Asian-Pacific military conference that took place in Singapore and was organized by the London-based International Institute for...
Why Beijing lies low at regional forums CHINA'S conspicuously low level of participation at the just-concluded Shangri-La Dialogue is a sign not only of its mistrust of the United States but also of a military not quite ready to link up with the world.China sent only a deputy chief of the Asia department of its Foreign Affairs Ministry to the annual Asian security forum. There was no representative from its military. This was no surprise to analysts who study the People's Liberation Army of China.
The great divide Mr Rumsfeld was addressing an audience of ministers, senior defence officials and security experts from 20 nations at the Shangri-La Dialogue - one of two informal security gatherings held in Southeast Asia over the past week. The future of Northeast Asia was the topic on everyone's lips, both in the public speeches and in the backroom discussions. In the longer term, many were asking how to create a new security body to ease tensions in a region where the rise of China and the militarisation...
Defence in SE Asia: From talking to doing EAST and South-East Asia have plenty of forums for talking about defence co-operation. What has been lacking, until recently, is action. However, when the region's defence ministers and military chiefs met in Singapore on June 2nd4th, it was clear that there was now a will to go from talking to doing. Indeed, the region's armed forces have already started working together to fend off terrorists and pirates.

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