November 4-11, 2006

USCPF arranges Senior Defense Studies Delegation Trip to China to discuss the Chinese defense budget

In November 2006, USCPF sent the first of its kind delegation of distinguished American experts to China to engage in an intensive exchange of information related to China’s defense budget and military spending with active and retired PLA officers. There are few aspects of China that have been subject to greater misunderstanding, not to say wilder conjecture and distortion, than the topic addressed. This summer, the foundation will release the result of these exchanges in the report, Defense-Related Spending in China: A Preliminary Analysis and Comparison with American Equivalents. We at the foundation believe the report offers a significant contribution to the factual basis for public understanding of the defense and related budgets in China and the United States, even as it establishes a benchmark for future exchanges and further advances in mutual understanding and pioneers a methodology for international defense-spending comparisons with implications far beyond those for Sino-American relations.

Read the report:

Defense-Related Spending in China:
A Preliminary Analysis and Comparison with American Equivalents