Interview with Evgeny Khrushchev

5 Mar, 2008 06:23 / Updated 16 years ago

China will raise its defence spending by almost a fifth this year. RT’s military analyst Evgeny Khrushchev says that China’s military doctrine is based on prevention of a technologically superior adversary encroaching on China’s national

“All those worries consistently expressed by the US are only from the US military industrial complex. They have a phantom pain as they are missing the Soviet Union as major number one adversary big time. Now they are whining for a number one adversary to justify the US military build-up. This is the only reason to justify the fact that the US’s military budget exceeds the ten other closest competitors worldwide,” Khruschev said.