THERE IS NO CHINA (via Bryan Francoeur):

Internal Security Tops Military in China Spending (Jeremy Page, 3/05/11, WSJ)

China projected bigger spending on internal security than on defense in 2011–after spending more last year too–as the government tightens physical and technological controls to quash calls for a “Jasmine Revolution” like the one shaking the Arab world. [...]

[S]pending this year on police, state security, armed civil militia, courts and jails would total 624.4 billion yuan ($95 billion), an increase of 13.8% over 2010.

China’s 2011 military budget, by comparison, is 601.1 billion ($91.5 billion), representing a rise of 12.7% over last year, a government spokesman announced Friday.

That means that China’s internal security spending is growing faster than its defense spending.

The guns point inwards.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2011 10:57 AM