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What the USA is or is not including in its budget is irrelevant to this topic.
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==Various studies==
 
The claim of the People's Republic of China that its defense spending is far lower than other major powers is correct, on the condition the official military budget number of the People's Republic of China is the real budget number. It has also been argued that the [[United States]] is also deliberately misleading on actual military expenditures, for example excluding [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]]-related expenses from the official Department of Defense budget report. [http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm] This suspicion about the military expenditure of the United States is confirmed by the [[SIPRI|Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] (SIPRI).
 
The (unofficial) calculations about the military spending of the People's Republic of China tend to differ between the different organisations.