Military budget of the People’s Republic of China: Information From Answers.com:

I’ve head a few comments about PRC military spending… If you’ve lived here, you won’t be surprised to find that nobody has the real numbers on PRC spending. Assuming that most of the PRC’s military spending is on domestic materials and employees, the PPP of that spending is actually quite significant.

Seems that Rumsfeld was questioning that spending a while back… Asking for more transparency. Seriously, if transparency were to start somewhere here, do you really think it would be with the military budget numbers? Sounds like he was looking to start a fight. Wouldn’t be the first time.

On the other hand, it seems most of the China related content on Wikipedia has been commandeered by Taiwanese folks. Not saying the facts are wrong, but I do sincerely question Wikipedia objectivity concerning the PRC. Seems the Great Firewall questions that objectivity as well…