{"id":2130,"date":"2005-08-31T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2130"},"modified":"2005-08-31T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T19:25:45","slug":"india_weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/31\/india_weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopaholic India"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now<\/em> we know why I can shopping spree like a champion– it’s in my genes. (Thanks, 43 Seconds.)<\/p>\n\n

According to the annual Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations report (pdf)<\/a>–widely considered the most comprehensive source on global weapons sales–India’s got so many shopping bags full of “tanks, submarines, combat aircraft, missiles and ammunition”, her arms are sore. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n

India was the leading buyer of conventional arms among developing nations in 2004<\/strong>, a report for the US Congress says. The Congressional Research Service said Delhi agreed the transfer of $5.7bn in weapons, ahead of China. [Beeb<\/a>] <\/blockquote>\n\n
India was also the leading developing world purchaser over the 1997-2004 period covered in the report, sealing 10% of all such arms agreements.[Beeb<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Yes, yes, the US is the biggest “weapons mall” of them all, with around a third of all contracts. It’s the mall of America, if you will. Oh wait, we already have one of those.<\/p>\n\n

Keeping up with the Wongs’?<\/p>\n\n

India negotiated $15.7bn in agreed transfers of conventional weapons between 1997 and 2004 to top the list.[Beeb<\/a>] <\/blockquote>\n\n
China overtook India for the period 2001-2004 on the back of a big increase in defence budget, but India was back on top for 2004 alone.[Beeb<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Enlighten me, do you think this is a good thing to be “on top” of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now we know why I can shopping spree like a champion– it’s in my genes. (Thanks, 43 Seconds.) According to the annual Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations report (pdf)–widely considered the most comprehensive source on global weapons sales–India’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,26,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}