OUTGUNNED: China hell bent on becoming the world’s most powerful country as it boosts military spending to a whopping £127billion

The Chinese are coming… rich from Western firms outsourcing factories to their nation, the government is ploughing the money it makes into its military (Image: AP.Associated Press)

 

The massive Chinese military build-up has certainly rattled the nerves of its neighbours as it develops new stealth fighters, aircraft carriers and missiles

CHINA has today unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years as it bids to dominate the world with a vast superpower military. 

The 2018 defence budget will be 1.11trillion yuan (£127billion), according to a bombshell report issued at the opening of China’s annual meeting of parliament.

Australian military planners in Washington work on Syrian war plans

NEITHER Kevin Rudd nor Tony Abbott will talk of armed intervention in the Syrian crisis, but Australian officers are already working with US allies on a plan if one is needed.

No such plans are being made in Canberra, but concerns are growing in the wake of chemical weapons claims and strong words from the Prime Minister.

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Asked on Channel 10’s The Project whether he supported Australian intervention in the country in the wake of reports up to 1300 were killed in a chemical massacre, the PM would not go that far, but left the door open.