Pentagon board says cuts essential, tells Obama to slash large weapons programs
By Bryan Bender
The Boston Globe
Published: 10 November 2008
WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department’s current budget is “not sustainable,” and he must scale back or eliminate some [...]

Rudd warns Australia must prepare for emerging arms race across Asia – PM flags major naval build-up
By Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent
The Australian
Published: 10 September 2008
Kevin Rudd has foreshadowed a dramatic expansion of the Royal Australian Navy to counter a military build-up being bankrolled by Asia’s growing economic prosperity.
The Prime Minister last night warned that [...]

Cheju peace forum calls for Northeast Asia security body
BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political
Published: 23 June 2007
Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap [Yonhap headline: "(lead) Northeast Asia Urged To Accelerate Efforts To Form OSCE-Style Security Body"]
CHEJU ISLAND, June 23 (Yonhap) - The 4th Cheju Peace Forum, an international conference, [...]

China’s defence spending races to match U.S.
By Paul Koring
The Globe and Mail
International News: Military, Page A17
Published: 12 June 2007
China’s military spending soared last year, vaulting Beijing into second place by some measures in the global arms bazaar, but still lagged far behind the United States.
U.S. military spending, fuelled by war in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]

China’s Military Spending on Sharp Upward Trajectory
By Richard Sammon
Kiplinger Business Forecasts
Vol. 2007, No. 0518
Published: 14 May 2007
A growing worry for Washington: China’s sharply rising military budget. Beijing’s spending on military programs and forces will jump 15% to 20% a year for the next several years as production begins in costly programs that have been in [...]

Spend more on defense, U.S. envoy urges Japan
The International Herald Tribune
News, Page 3
Published: 21 May 2008
BRIEFLY: Asia/Pacific: Tokyo
Japan should raise its military spending, as other countries in the region do, and share the costs of defending itself with the United States, Washington’s ambassador to Tokyo said Tuesday.
Ambassador Thomas Schieffer said Japan, whose defense is largely [...]

Don’t Believe Spending Cut Rumors
By Bernard Finel
Defense News
Published: 17 November 2008
Before the presidential election, reports began to circulate that the Pentagon was planning to propose a defense spending increase of roughly $450 billion over five years. That’s in addition to the increases in the base budget already laid out in the 2009 Future Years Defense [...]