{"id":53924,"date":"2023-03-30T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/asia-pacific-flashpoints-fuelling-regional-arms-race-taiwan-north-korea-south-china-sea-pacific-islands"},"modified":"2023-04-04T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:15:11","slug":"the-asia-pacific-flashpoints-fuelling-an-arms-race-across-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53924","title":{"rendered":"Asia\u2019s arms race: potential flashpoints from Taiwan to the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian correspondents look at the buildup of tensions across the region, from North Korea to the Pacific islands<\/p>\n<p>Global militarisation has increased rapidly over the course of the 21st century, with a clear recalibration towards the Asia Pacific. Between 2000 and 2021, annual military spending increased from $1.12trn (in 2020 dollar terms) to $2.11trn. In that time, the share of global defence spending in Asia and Oceania increased from 18% to 28%, according to data compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Growing concerns over China, whose defence spending has increased steadily for nearly three decades, has fuelled an arms race across the region, upending decades-long regional conventions and revealing several potential flashpoints.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/asia-pacific-flashpoints-fuelling-regional-arms-race-taiwan-north-korea-south-china-sea-pacific-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian correspondents look at the buildup of tensions across the region, from North Korea to the Pacific islandsGlobal militarisation has increased rapidly over the course of the 21st century, with a clear recalibration towards the Asia Pacific. Betw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,88,40,874,55,63,535,222,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-pacific-islands","category-philippines","category-solomon-islands","category-south-china-sea","category-south-korea","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53924\/revisions\/54044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}