China’s Military is Growing - Fast 

2:21 She is right. China's military expense has grown faster since 1999, the year when NATO bombed the China's embassy in Serbia, the Yugoslavia back then.

Funny. A country with 800 military bases around the globe is looking at one with just one overseas base and says "you're growing too fast".

I have respect for countries that have grown strong despite western sanctions and blackmail.

Whether you like China or not or whether you disagree or agree with their tactics, one cannot deny that they have grown to be a modern nation. They still have a ways to go, but lifting millions out of poverty is perhaps the best achievement any country can accomplish.

Chinese military budget is still 25%of the US', China hasn't fought in a war this century. China is not the problem, Western aggression is.

US with over 800 bases world wide: “this is fine” US seeing a single eastern country trying to open a base: “you’re out of control, you’re prepping for war”

25 years ago China's share of the world GDP was about 3%; now, it is about18.5%. In the past 2000 years, China's share of the world GDP was around 25%. The US surpassed China in GDP in the year 1890. It seems like China will reclaim it back within 10 years. China was almost colonized by the West and Japan. Learned from the past 150 years, China needs a strong military to protect its wealth.

USA: "A day without hypocrisy, is a day wasted".

Friendly reminder in 2021 China's military spending was 1.7% of their GDP while the US was at 3.7%, China's military is growing as the same level as their GDP growth rate, the US military is growing fast without the actual growth rate to back it up, its like the Cold War but this time the US is in the same position as USSR previously did.

I don't see anything wrong having a strong military when you have a strong growing fast economy. They need to protected.

I am so glad that most of the people understand the real situation in this world

Do not stop please China 🇨🇳

If you are familiar with China history of the past 200 years , you definitly understand why China has been developing its military power.

You forgot to give the reason why. Because they are surrounded by hundreds of military bases.

When USA say you have extremely dangerous weapons,you'd better really have,or...

China is growing its military slower than Europe and especially the US. The reason for this is that China wants a strong military to support its trade in the world. China is the main trading partner of 140 countries. The US military uses up close a trillion dollars annually on its military to maintain its primacy as the unipolar power of the world.The differences in the military architecture of China and that of Western countries is simply that China´s military is defensive in nature and The West is offensive in nature. One is there to patrol the world and China wants to provide safe passage to itself and others in trade and to ward off piracy. China has a larger fleet for the maneuvers it needs just as the US has a stronger fighting force to stop any geopolitical challenge to its hegemony. The present problem in the US today is that our elites calculate China´s rise as it calculates other rising powers in Western history. China lost a lot by being closed off to the rest of the world. It was invaded by the mongols, Japan, and the US with its allies. It was not until 1949 that the Chinese began a hard struggle to modernize and avoided a US invasion by developing its own atomic bomb by 1964.China wants its territories back and Taiwan is indispensable because it was a part of China and because it presents an existential threat to China´s security in it become a vassal state of the US. It was on the condition that the US accepted that Taiwan is a rebellious autonomous region of China, That China established normal relations with the US in 1972. The US uses the Taiwan situation to agitate the nationalistic fervor of the Chinese. Elites in the US want to provoke a war is it has alrteady done in Ukraine. The US/NATO strategy has failed against Russia and it will fail miserably against China. A wiser approach would be to learn a lot about the Chinese tendencies to close themselves off as a means of avoiding conflict. The Chinese culture approaches conflicts from the perspective of establishing trust and resolving disputes by allowing time to resolve the or solve problems through negotiations with a win-win attitude. This requires knowing your competitor well enough to present a win-win offer. China has survived through many crises and wars. It already has the largest economy as it did prior to its closing off and invasions by Japan and The West. China is a mature civilization. The US can have its hegemony with China´s help. What the world will not accept are unilateral illegal sanctions, invasion of other countries, interventions in the sovereign affairs of other countries and economic black mail.

Blumberg's tape has two sides, China threat theory and China collapse theory, playing side A today🤣🤣🤣

China military spending is high but mostly on soldiers that are at home. US military is biggest but a great amount of the money go to maintaining those 800+ overseas bases and structures.

As a Chinese, I can say that China's economy and military is really growing fast now. I love my country!

Twenty years ago the Chinese military was planting 17 billion trees per year, now likely more. No wonder the universe has blessed them with prosperity

U.S: (Has over 800 bases overseas) China: (Built 1 in Djoubouti) Also U.S: *"WE FEEL THREATHENED"*

4:15 “ We (USA) have hundreds of bases overseas. China has one. so they're really promoting their military power regionally, And so that's one way that they can out-compete the U.S.” what does it mean? China has become one-hundredth of the U.S.A military, but we (U.S.A.) still think China is so aggressive.

Americans say China lack combative experience. Let's see US battlefield experience post WW2. Korea, stalemate. Vietnam, lost. Afghan, lost. Iraq, lost. That's 1 tie, 3 loses, 0 win. In each of those wars, the US was superior to its rivals in every conceivable way, except will. It is a well known secret that America cannot stomach a long war. The Talibans using AK's and IED's were able to repel the US and their GPS-guided munitions and all sort of stealth figthers. In history, there has ever been such a technologically dominant military force that is defeated with such consistency.

When you go from zero bases to 1 base, that is a 100% increase.... lol

Do another one. Title is "USA military had never stopped growing and invading other countries"

China still spends a fraction of America's defense spending on their military. We should be more worried about their science, infrastructure, healthcare, and education spending which far outstrips that of the United States.

A modern army that guards peace as strong as any, even the enemy will respect them !

I really admire China for its development You are deserve of a so light future

Let me tell you a fact, China's military spending only accounts for 1.7% of GDP, which is comparable to that of Central American Honduras. China's military spending is really low compared to other influential countries in the world. Australia's military spending accounts for 2.1% of GDP. India's military expenditure accounts for 2.9% of GDP US military spending accounts for 3.7% of GDP

...and guess who's the reason for China increasing its military spending? Yes, it's the USA's presence in the south China sea

*The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.* *Sun Tzu*

At least they are developing mainly a defense force and not forces to invade and occupy other countries

Why is it a problem? We are attacking China every single day. If me as Chinese leader, I would spend double of American budget to match up.

we learn the same lesson being colonized by Western nations, China's lesson was harder being invaded and divided by Western nation and Japan in the early 1900s. Western nations taught to prevent being subjugated again, strong military protection is needed.

To protect all the hard working from chinese people, china needs to fight the threat from the US and the west!

The war on terror ? A war brings terror

This is one of stupidest conclusion I've ever seen, "Taiwan might be China's Vietnam"?? What on earth are you talking about? This proves so-called 'Dr. Zeno' has very poor understanding of Chinese history and East Asian history. More like "Vietnam was China's Vietnam", China literally fought with Vietnam several times in history already, sometimes won, sometimes lost, and Vietnam literally was part of China and China's vassal in history, China also helped Vietnam fighting against French and Americans to achieve their independence in Vietnam War at 20th century. Vietnam is far bigger than Taiwan and has far stronger fighting will, and it's actually a global recognized independent country and UN member unlike Taiwan, while Taiwan is just an island of China which currently is still controlled by "Republic of China" due to Chinese Civil War, hence the so-called "de facto independence" of Taiwan. The whole historical and political contexts are totally different. Moreover, the situation of China reclaiming the sovereignty of Taiwan island has already happened several times before, from Ming to Qing to ROC all had similar situation, this is not really new thing.

Sun Tzu's "winning without war" is working well for China. China is advancing in technology, social global influence, economy, ideology, and structural race, amongst others, without ever wasting time, energy and money towards a current war. The US and other western powers have been pre-occupied with war for the better part of the last 3-4 decades. Significant resources and time have poured in towards those conflicts, thus slowing advancements in areas highlighted above. To advance faster and more efficient than your counterparts without being involve in conflict is making China far stronger than any Western nations wasting energy on current wars/conflicts they likely may never win. This is also the reason why, in my opinion, China is more hesitant in starting a war when compared to western nations. They are winning for not fighting. It would be wiser to allow your rivals to fight themselves into resource exhaustion and let yourself grow in the process.

China's GDP is actually larger than the official figure because several wealthy provinces underreported in order to pay less tax So the military expenditure is actually more than the official one. Considering the purchasing power, China's military expenditure is actually similar to the US or even a little more.

China must never grow arrogant like the UasSA and the West. Apply Sun Tzu's theory is important. Even during peace time the armed forces must be maintained and the weaponries be upgraded constantly. Not to fail like the West. Maintaining peace and prosperity for everyone Chinese and others must be an important foreign policies and minimise enemies. This way Chinese's prosperity and development will continue forward,

One of the best jokes I ever heard: US starts wars all over the world against terrorism

No worries. China does not spend 750 billion dollars a year on the military.

Surprisingly objective from Bloomberg.

希望未来的世界，是美国 中国 印度 欧盟 俄罗斯形成的多极世界，和平友好，正常的商业性竞争

I'm from Malaysia, when we wanted to build a bridge and looking for suitable partners for collaboration, the Chinese came and said we can work overtime without extra pay, we can work 7 days a week without leave. The whole fricking bridge was built by Chinese. Tells you how the Chinese threatened the world. Not their military seriously. Because if you already lose jobs opportunity with the Chinese, there's no point talking about military

There's funny when western say China will invade Taiwan while they still admit Taiwan is part of China

Your content is so touching

Who knows how many tanks and other military vehicles they have in store? Probably way more than the we know since they have so many people to work on them.

"Taiwan might be China's Vietnam." I guess we still haven't learnt anything about why the US failed in Vietnam.

If one country wants to be able to fight in its own back yard, and another wants to be able to fight anywhere on the globe, I think one of these two has a better justification for their military spending.

Why should they not dominate in their own backyard?. QUESTIONS, AND QUESTIONS AND MORE SAME QUESTIONS. Duh!

Awesome!! Someone has to defend the world against those American terrorists.

When you are growing strong you are evil, a threat, a peace breaker... When you are too strong you are a peacekeeper, order maintainer.

The part about China producing "weapons that cost less to build than what they destroy" is really critical. A lot of the US budget is spent on horrendously overpriced equipment that purely exists to shovel money into the pockets of defense contractors, there were stories of troops in Afghanistan getting ridicoulusly expensive planes/helicopters that they had no idea what to do with and couldn't actually use, that are now in the hands of the Taliban, still in factory condition. The private defense corporations make generous donations to individual US lawmakers, and in return they pay them billions upon billions of taxpayer money to make overpriced weaponry, regardless of need or efficiency.

When the American thinks about you day or night 24/7 , you've arrived , well done

Remember when everyone try to learn how to operate my space shuttles

US have more than 300 military base around world, those base circled China, this is the reason of developing military in China

While america spent 20 years in afghanistan and spent $2,200,000,000,000 for the military misadventure there , china uses up $1,000,000,000,000 in 12 years to build 39,000 km of high speed rail to connect all 180 1st,2nd tier cities in 32 provinces

Global Guardian... 😂😂😂 Global Hagemon is the more correct term.

One country that builds 40% of the ships in the world. A country that is a hallow shell of itself used to have that capability.

5:35 When you said United States could have built 10 of those but fought war in Afghanistan, I felt it. It cannot get as brutally honest as that, especially from a Western media.

"Taiwan will be able to mobilize a great amount of military reserve." The "military reserve" actually means college students who had gone through a 4-month summer training camp who barely knows how to fire a shot.

Policing the world means. Destroying the world lol

Saying America won world War 2 as if the soviet union never existed

US: having 800+ bases across the world China: Trying to build one US: We feel threatened

What has China exported in the past? Trade, infrastructure or war? When one country is dominant, you see what happened in the last 20 years, is it really world peace? The world needs multi-polar development, rather than being dictated by one country.

putting our time and effort in activities and investments that will yielda profitable return in the future is what we should be aiming for. success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it.

China military budget is 1/4 of usa.

A strong country must have a strong military . The strongest country must have the most trimmest military. This documentary implies others cannot have a big military except the US. Chinese ought to have a military 4x the US. So that it won’t get bullied with all sorts of economic and military means .

Basically, the US wants to maintain its hegemony while China is a rising power that is challenging that status quo

China is also now competitive in space, with thier own space station, and the only other country besides the U.S with an active rover on Mars.

loosing industrial capacity is one of the major downfalls of the western world.

Love how as a US taxpayer we are somehow paying the biggest military bill in history while also losing the arms race. Great job by Washington as always.

You « forgot » to say that China spend quite small percentage of their GDP in military… and that they basically only increase the military spending at the same speed as the GDP increase.

China should set up nukes in Cuba and Venezuela pointed at Imperial America. LOLOL

"Only 6% of Taiwanese wanted to join the PRC". Actually it's never been less than 8%. The same amount who want Taiwan to declare Independence. The BULK of Taiwanese want to retain the status quo as a auntonmous province and not a Republic like USA is pushing to declare itself as.

US spent 4x budget on military than China, which is also problematic.

while the belt and road initiative is very important strategically it’s not all about military power. it’d be more apt to call it economic power. china understands what it does best is exporting things, if it creates infrastructure to secure and expand that trade, it supplies the country with long term growth. it also fosters an image of china as philanthropic. china’s next largest service sector is construction, those laborers must be kept busy somewhere, somehow, to keep the ball rolling

That's according to Bloomsburg but what Bloomsburg and others consistently ignore is the overall military ability and logistics of the collective West in an actual theatre of war to which China and Russia combined simply cannot match.

看了点儿外国友人评论。没想到大家大多很中立 且能正确看待中国军力发展。着实意外

Solve inside problems before exaggerating outside threats.

I think its not their military US should be worried about but their economic advancements. They are so bloody hardworking. I wish my country was like this.

China Russia invest in hypersonic missiles. Usa let’s keep building carriers. Lol

The military is growing but when last were they in an actual war? That is a big difference. How effective are their military leaders?

From recent China's History, especially since 1840 onwards, China was constantly being invaded by outside countries because the Qing Dynasty near to its end was very weak. So-called China's 100 years of shame. When you are poor you will face hunger and when you are weak others will bully you. The last few decades saw China with the efforts of its 1.4B hardworking Chinese under the leadership of the CPC keep moving forward, towards a more prosperous stronger united future. With a modern military well-equipped well-trained well-disciplined ever-ready to defend the beloved Motherland and its people

What would America have done if China supported Hawaii independence and constantly sent warships and fighter jets close to California? America is now on China’s doorstep wielding guns, what choice does China have?

Not just different objectives, also different cost scales. It probably costs 1500+ for an AK47 manufactured in the US (hypothetically), the same quality device could probably be had in China for 300 or less. When half the cost is inflation due to overcharging for everything (MRIs, food, utility devices) you can't equate that to a qualitative advantage. You pay $3000 for an MRI in the US, and say $500 for one in Japan, does that means the US MRI was 6x superior? Also, one side: pay $250 million to develop new technology CHina: pay $250,000 to still the key details of development of that new technology. Cost savings.

It's still difficult to take an island even if very close to the mainland and attacking force is much bigger. The Germans had that idea with Great Britain look where that went.

I am not quite sure "Taiwan will be China's Vietnam." Remember, During the Vietnam war, military supplies from both China and Soviet Union continued to pour into Vietnam without any interruption. Furthermore, China warned the U.S. (through a third country) that if the U.S. ever cross the 17th parallel, then China would intervened (just like during the Korean War). As a result, the U.S. was fighting a protracted defensive war. Taiwan, unfortunately, is an island. If there is going to be an invasion, Taiwanese are pretty much on their own. Given what is going on in Ukraine, I am not sure the U.S. would intervene militarily (remember sinking one aircraft carrier = roughly 5000 lives). The question for the U.S. is simple: is Taiwan worth World War III? Probably not. The most the U.S. and its allies would do is to impose the most severe economic sanctions against China.

America raises interest rates, harvests the world, builds more aircraft carriers

Not fast enough.... China needs to have at least 10K nukes, half of them facing the US !

We Chinese make money by our hard work, and we need to protect what we have gained. We will never let the history rehappen as 100 years ago! Are there any problems? Chinese have never invaded any other nations in our entire history, not like other big countries!

I am sorry to say, The Chinese are way smarter and effective in achieving their goals. The Chinese have a long term vision. Something the U.S. because of their political deficiencies and power struggles are not even able of formulating.

I hope China and Russia will become super power of the world and bring peace.. usa and nato need to get thrown out of any peace deals

China is in a great position, it’s located far from it’s counter superpowers like America/Uk/NATO, it’s boarder neighbors are North Korea, Russia, India, Vietnam so trying to get troops & weapons form the west will be hard. China has 2 million active military personal, another 2 million reserves and the largest work force to create armament during the war. Can the US win? probably but at what cost to the world?

how many country has China inveded?how many the USA and uk?

Yet... the US's military spending is still more than the next 9 highest military spending combined (including China). So what's the point of this video? The Second or Third most powerful military is still nothing compared to America's military might (nor does anyone have more bases). Also, the US has its NATO allies, among others, meaning it still has more military capacity than any other nation in history. Also, talking about the potential for "wartime production" is ridiculous. Every serious military analyst since the 1980s can tell you that any global war would be a Come As You Are War, meaning there would be no time for mass production because any global conflict between nuclear powers would quickly spiral into a nuclear war. This whole report is ridiculous. People trying to rationalise global war as if nuclear weapons don't exist.

I gotta give China credit. They are progressing at very monumental rates. All factors aside, just their willingness to produce and build so much is facinating and Sidenote, their infrastructure project commitment I wish we could be doing here. It seems like when China is improving infrastructure they just do it no matter what they don't care about the cost to go that extra mile of complexity, they just do it and that I admire. Hopefully they do build power plants that cut their emissions down a ton because thats a huge thing that's impacting the entire globe. I'm glad they are building nuclear energy because that really is the best option for the backbone of the power grid for stability and leave room for the use of alternative power sources with the rest of the progress. Nuclear energy has advanced so much since the era most of society is traumatized by and I really hope this will show a new chapter to a new era of nuclear energy, now that we have advanced so much with technology, engineering, material science, safety understanding, computer tech, sensor tech, programming systems, different types of nuclear reactor designs and multi stage safety implements, Etc.

China's development is peaceful,As long as you don't attack her

I'm so impressed what China has become, it's like watching an empire grow in real time.