Buy the bullet: global defence spending

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Buy the bullet: global defence spending
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:20:56
• Published: 2019-05-02 11:55

Governments the world over are beefing up defence spending—chief among them America’s and China’s. But some aggressive countries’ budgets are actually shrinking. May Day protests in France took a violent turn this year, and that complicates President Macron’s efforts to calm an already protest-prone populace. And, academics have been trying to determine which English-speaking country produces the most bullshit.

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