An episode of ChinaTalk which I recently listened to, and enjoyed more than I expected.

TODO: take notes on a bunch of the core ideas, but here’s one which I want to remember.

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Countries around china are spending less and less on their militaries was the claim!

Note: East/Southeast Asian countries here are just averaged rather than weighted by GDP because the dataset didn’t have that.

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But in the grand scheme of things, not really?