#PRC: One-sided arms race. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, News
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#PRC: One-sided arms race. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I On The World. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Dotsch with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. |
| 0:10.6 | The detail about China's defense budget. |
| 0:14.0 | China's defense budget, the report, goes, now at $230 billion US. |
| 0:20.4 | That's an increase of $16 billion from the budget in 2022. |
| 0:25.1 | The quote, China's Ministry of Finance announced a new infusion of cash and its annual report. |
| 0:30.6 | We go to Jim Final, who is our help on understanding these matters because for many years he served |
| 0:37.6 | as US Navy Captain, Director of Intelligence and Information Operations at the US Pacific |
| 0:43.2 | Fleet. |
| 0:44.2 | He's now a government fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy. |
| 0:48.8 | Jim, you watch the defense budget in China grow over the years of your service. |
| 0:54.8 | Is there anything unusual in this fresh report? |
| 0:57.6 | Are they getting more for their money or less for their money? |
| 1:00.3 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:02.3 | Good evening, John and Gordon. |
| 1:05.8 | This report from the National People's Congress two sessions is in my mind just the steady |
| 1:11.4 | continuum of a demonstration by the Chinese Communist Party of the prioritization that they |
| 1:17.4 | place on having a great military and to build it up as they've been doing for the last |
| 1:24.1 | almost nearly 30 years. |
| 1:26.0 | This is once again a demonstration that the PRC's priorities are first and foremost having |
| 1:33.0 | a major military capability that can defeat the United States. |
| 1:37.9 | Gordon, you have a question for Jim. |
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