{"id":7686,"date":"2020-01-28T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:51:12","slug":"china-ranked-worlds-second-largest-arms-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/china-ranked-worlds-second-largest-arms-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"China Ranked World\u2019s Second Largest Arms Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The opaque Chinese arms industry has made the Asian nation\nthe world&#8217;s second largest producer of munitions, a clear shift from a decade\nago when China relied on imports. The report showed that the Chinese arms\ngroups have generated sufficient sales to be ranked among the world&#8217;s top 20\nweapons sellers. The four groups have combined sales worth $54.1 billion in\n2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China ranked ahead of Russia, from whom the country used to\nbuy many weapons. More arms exports increases the risk of weapons\nproliferation, but China&#8217;s entry to the world stage of weaponry sales is of\nspecial concern to the researchers since Beijing has not signed on to many of\nthe arms control regulations that exist, including the Arms Trade Treaty\napproved by the UN General Assembly in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opaque Chinese arms industry has made the Asian nation the world&#8217;s second largest producer of munitions, a clear shift from a decade ago when China relied on imports. The report showed that the Chinese arms groups have generated sufficient sales to be ranked among the world&#8217;s top 20 weapons sellers. The four groups have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[447],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}