{"id":17939,"date":"2025-09-03T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=17939"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:04:22","slug":"chinas-role-as-a-global-arms-exporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/chinas-role-as-a-global-arms-exporter\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s role as a global arms exporter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">China is not a major arms exporter, with a volume way below that sold by the US, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">While China is a major supplier of weapons to Pakistan, for example, it only accounted for 5.9% of global exports between 2020-2024, the institute\u2019s latest report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"347\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/World-Military-Weapons-Sales.png?fit=635%2C347&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/World-Military-Weapons-Sales.png?w=635&amp;ssl=1 635w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/World-Military-Weapons-Sales.png?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Today\u2019s parade was a good opportunity for China to showcase weapons it may be willing to sell to countries looking for providers other than traditional suppliers, Retired Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan told CNN\u2019s Lynda Kinkade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is not a major arms exporter, with a volume way below that sold by the US, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. While China is a major supplier of weapons to Pakistan, for example, it only accounted for 5.9% of global exports between 2020-2024, the institute\u2019s latest report said. Today\u2019s parade was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chinese-Military-Parade.png?fit=610%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17942,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions\/17942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}