China now world's second biggest weapons producer: Researchers

The report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute suggests that China's weapons production, which has previously been shrouded in mystery owing to a lack of transparency, has grown as three of the world's top 10 arms companies are Chinese.

The report notes however that the lack of transparency remains an"important caveat" when studying the Chinese arms industry. This still represents a dramatic shift over the last 10 years as China in the past was a big importer of weapons from Russia and Ukraine.Chinese arms companies are also much more specialised than their international counterparts.

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.In the report the researchers have looked into four specific Chinese companies, all of which rank among the world's top 20, and say that with an increase in the available data on these companies"it is now possible to develop reasonably reliable estimates of the scale of the Chinese arms industry.

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