By | Published: 4:16 pmStockholm: The opaque Chinese arms industry has made the Asian nation the world’s second largest producer of munitions, a clear shift from a decade ago when China relied on imports, researchers said in a new report Monday. “We can with confidence say that China is the second largest arms producer in the world, behind the US and ahead of Russia,” Nan Tian, co-author of the report, told AFP. The report notes however that the lack of transparency remains an “important caveat” when studying the Chinese arms industry. “They no longer need to rely on other countries for their weapons,” Tian said. SIPRI researchers have previously struggled to obtain reliable data on the size of the Chinese arms industry, since the producers are all state-owned entities.

Source: Libya Today January 26, 2020 23:15 UTC