As China increases its military spending the whining of America, UK and other western countries rings in our ears as they moan about China not being open enough about exactly what it is spending its money on. I am not sure whether i am missing something or not but what the hell has it got to do with them. Our budgets don’t exactly disclose where all of our money goes, and on what technologies we are focusing our energies. You can be sure that with Americas refusal to engage in a non-proliferation treaty with regards to space based weapons systems that China is going to be putting lots of money into that. You can also bet that due to American withdrawls from many of the treaties that existed to control arms developments that we will never be seeing an open budget. Why don’t we start with America giving an open and descriptive budget first before moaning at other people to do it.