China has ousted the UK as the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter by volume, mainly because of shipments to Pakistan, according to a report.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute yesterday said Chinese arms exports rose 162 per cent between 2008 to 2012, propelling China into the top five arms-exporting countries for the first time since the cold war.
Also, it is the first time the UK has not been one of the top five conventional arms exporters since at least 1950, the earliest year covered by Sipri data.
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