【新唐人2012年5月21日訊】美國國防部週五發佈的2012年度《涉華軍事與安全發展報告》顯示，中國去年的軍費支出有可能達到1800億美金，遠遠高於北京方面公布的數字。報告還指出：中國是世界上最大的經濟間諜行動的策源地，並且通過網絡攻擊竊取情報。
中國今年3月份發佈的數據表明，中國2012年的軍費支出將達到6700億人民幣，也就是大約1060億美金的規模。這與2011年相比增加了11.2%。到目前為止，中國軍費支出在過去的20年中幾乎每年都會以兩位數的速度增長。
如果以2011年的價格以及匯率為準，美國國防部預測中國2011年度內的軍費支出，實際上在1200億到1800億美元之間。美國國防部助理部長赫爾韋指出：「中國許多在核武器現代化方面的投資並沒有出現在官方公布的預算中。另外美國猜測中國在國防工業上的許多研發費用也來自其他方面的預算，而且一些用於在國外採購的經費也來自別處。」
「紐約城市大學」政治學教授夏明指出，中共膨脹的軍事開支源於它對內憂外患的焦慮和不安。中國現在在國際大的環境下，處境越發困難。因為中國在過去的十幾年，在外交上逐漸的開始覺得財大氣粗，逐漸變得更具有進攻性和侵略性，對周邊小國採取了一些霸道的做法，對美國也採取更多強硬和挑戰的做法。
夏明：「在這種心態下，和這種國際環境下，中國政府顯然覺得加強軍費軍事開支成為必然的政策。因為從朝鮮半島，到日本海，到黃海，到台灣海峽，到南海，到越南緬甸印度支那半島，到南亞還有阿富汗，可以看到，中國處於他認為被敵對勢力包圍的環境。他的軍費顯然反映出他這樣一種心態。」
其次，中共政府為了維護自己政權的合法性，它想從國際舞臺上的地位來獲得資源，加強國內的合法性。所以他擴張軍備，使得武器不斷現代化升級，成為威懾國內老百姓的一部分，成為加強合法性的一部分努力。
另外，中共軍事膨脹跟其維穩路線和對內鎮壓民眾的需要密不可分。
夏明：「因為中國目前在內部有很多讓他頭痛的地方，尤其在新疆和西藏，都是讓他頭痛的區域，所以軍隊的擴展和對內鎮壓是密不可分的。同時中國維穩集團成為中國一個龐大的利益集團，綁架了中國人民的利益。所以這個維穩集團顯然從不斷的擴張軍事開支和維穩費用，誇大了武器和軍事維穩人員的擴張對政權帶來的積極效果，顯然會引起這批利益集團不斷擴張自己的利益，而把中國人民利益的綁架下去了。」
美國國防部助理部長赫爾韋再三提到網絡攻擊「來自中國」。他說：「我們對他們的了解越多，就越能夠更好的明白他們行動的本質，並更有信心的說，許多網絡攻擊活動的源頭是中國。」分析家們指出，中共利用間諜活動以及收購軍民兩用技術，來加速軍事現代化的進程。
奥巴馬總統去年推出新的軍事戰略計劃核心政策，包括削減美軍在世界許多其他地方的部署規模，但是加強美國在亞太地區影響。目標是建立一個可靠，廉價但足以抵抗恐怖主義危險的軍事力量，同時要預防一些國家，例如中國和伊朗帶來的新的危險。
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US Report: China, The World’s Top Active
Economic & Cyber Spy
On May 18, the U.S. Defense Department released the
latest annual report on “Military and Security Developments Involving the P.R.China”.
The report says China’s military spending in 2011 might
reach USD 180 billion, a figure much higher than the officially released figure. Chinese actors are the world’s most active and persistent
perpetrators of economic espionage.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime also launched
cyber attacks to gather intelligence, according to the Pentagon report.
The CCP official data release this March show that China’s
2012 military budget will reach 670 billion RMB (USD 106 billion), an11.2% increase over 2011.
Over the past 20 years, nearly each year has seen a
double-digit boost on its military budget.
Using 2011 prices and exchange rates, the U.S. Defense
Department’s estimates China’s total military-related
spending for 2011 ranges between $120 billion and
$180 billion,” said the report.
David Helvey, acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense said, “Some of their nuclear forces modernization
occurs off-budget, some of the R&D monies that go to their
defense industry we also think comes from a different budget.
some of the foreign acquisitions come from a different
account as well.”
Ming Xia, professor at the City University of New York, says,
China’s robust increase in military budget stems
From the CCP’s anxiety and unease beset by problems
inside and outside of China.
Under global circumstances, China is now facing an
increasinglydifficult situation, says professor Xia.
This is because after over a decades’ development,
the CCP began to feel rich and self assured.
Diplomatically, the regime has gradually shown itself
more offensive and aggressive.
It has taken some overbearing approaches to the
surrounding countries,and more tough and challenging stances against the U.S..
Ming Xia: “With such a mentality and in such a
global environment, the Chinese regime apparently believes that raising the military budget is a must.
From the Korean peninsula, to the Sea of Japan, down to
the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, until Vietnam,
Burma, India’s Indochina Peninsula,
South Asia and Afghanistan,
China is surrounded by 『hostile forces』 that the regime defines.
Its military spending clearly reflects
such a state of mind. “
Secondly, the CCP military buildup aims to safeguard
the regime’s legitimacy by uplifting its role in the international arena.
Its military expansion and continuous weapons
modernization,serve to suppress the Chinese people and to strengthen the legality of it’s rule.
The CCP’s military expansion is inseparable from its
“stability preservation” policy and the repression of domestic civilians, says Ming Xia.
Ming Xia: “Inside China, there are lots of issues troubling
the CCP, especially in regions like Xinjiang and Tibet.
So military expansion is inseparable from internal repression.
Meanwhile, the ruling force advocating stability
preservation has become a large interest group in China.
Through continuous military expansion and
stability preservation,
this group has exaggerated the resulting positive effects on
the regime’s ruling power.
This has created excuses for the group to gain their
personal interests using this method,
but has also allowed them to abuse the interests
of the Chinese people. ”
David Helvey has repeatedly mentioned that cyber attacks
are found that “originate from China”.
“As we learn moreabout them, we have a better
understanding of the nature of the operations, and that
helps us to say with greater confidence that some of
these are in fact coming from China,”
Analysts said that espionage and the acquisition of dual-use
technologies could accelerate the Beijing regime’s military modernization.
In 2011, the Obama administration launched a new military
strategy.
The policy cuts U.S. military deployment in the world’s
other regions, strengthening its influence in the Asia-Pacific theatre.
The goal is to establish a reliable, uncostly military force
to resist the dangers of terrorism,
and to prevent new dangers originating from countries
such as China or Iran.
