{"id":30667,"date":"2018-10-26T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30667"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:54:41","slug":"indias-arms-imports-from-u-s-up-by-550-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-arms-imports-from-u-s-up-by-550-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s arms imports from U.S. up by 550%: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/indias-arms-imports-from-us-up-by-550-report\/article23166622.ece\"><strong>India\u2019s arms imports from U.S. up by 550%: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Report on global arms sales by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>US is now India\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> largest arm supplier<\/strong>: The U.S. recorded a blazing growth in its arms exports to India, recording over 550% growth in 2013-17 compared with the previous five years. As a result, the U.S. has become India\u2019s second largest supplier<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pakistan is largest recipient of Chinese arms exports<\/strong>: Pakistan\u2019s imports from the U.S. dropped by 76% in 2013-17 compared with 2008-12, while it emerged as the largest recipient of Chinese arms exports<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia<\/strong> continued to be <strong>India\u2019s largest arms supplier<\/strong>, accounting for 62% of India\u2019s arms imports between 2013 and 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>India<\/strong> was the<strong> world\u2019s largest importer of major arm<\/strong>s in 2013-17 and accounted for 12% of the global total. Its imports increased by 24% between 2008-12 and 2013-17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>China<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China\u2019s arms imports fell by 19 per cent between 2008-12 and 2013-17<\/li>\n<li>While it was the <strong>world\u2019s fifth largest arms importer<\/strong> in 2013-17, China has also emerged as the <strong>fifth largest arms exporter<\/strong>, with exports\u00a0rising by 38% between 2008-12 and 2013-17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s arms imports from U.S. up by 550%: report Context Report on global arms sales by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Observations US is now India\u2019s 2nd largest arm supplier: The U.S. recorded a blazing growth in its arms exports to India, recording over 550% growth in 2013-17 compared with the previous five&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-arms-imports-from-u-s-up-by-550-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s arms imports from U.S. up by 550%: report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909308},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}