More spending means more funding for the military industries. If China wants to catch the US, it needs to develop its military industries much further than they are today. That means spending even more than the US does (which is already a greater proportion of their GDP than China's so nominally this is an insane amount but they also seem to get less per dollar). So China doubling military spending still won't even begin to touch where the US is today. Let's not forget that the US has been spending significant sums for more than half a century whereas China's only recently had the economy that could afford it an okay military.
Naturally MAD holds priority over all other fields. It would be nice to see China become an MIC dominated nation, long enough for it to at least catch up to the US. There won't be any serious wars between military powers today because we live in an age of MAD. Either we all get along or we all die. Only since the later stages of the Cold War was this a reality in all of human history and warfare. The reason China benefits from becoming an MIC nation is it could cheaply export serious weaponry everywhere and force the world into changing global politics, favouring more equity for those who have currently zero means of escaping US hegemony. It's not that the rest of the world's population from Greece to Venezuela are simply incapable of being productive. The struggle is on multiple fronts though. Neo-liberalism has a stranglehold on the western world due to superior and prolonged propaganda, brainwashing the masses.
Naturally MAD holds priority over all other fields. It would be nice to see China become an MIC dominated nation, long enough for it to at least catch up to the US. There won't be any serious wars between military powers today because we live in an age of MAD. Either we all get along or we all die. Only since the later stages of the Cold War was this a reality in all of human history and warfare. The reason China benefits from becoming an MIC nation is it could cheaply export serious weaponry everywhere and force the world into changing global politics, favouring more equity for those who have currently zero means of escaping US hegemony. It's not that the rest of the world's population from Greece to Venezuela are simply incapable of being productive. The struggle is on multiple fronts though. Neo-liberalism has a stranglehold on the western world due to superior and prolonged propaganda, brainwashing the masses.
