Data: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS

Tool: Tableau

It says it's % of their GDP. So without knowing their GDP for each year. It's kinda hard to gauge how much they are spending.

If China has twice the GDP than India. Then the spending doesn't mirror each other at all. China would be militarily outspending India by 2*. That wouldn't be mirroring each other at all.

I guess the point they want to make is that India and China spend in step with each other.

You are gonna get a better gun? I'll get a better gun!

You are gonna get a better ship? I'll get a better ship!

You are gonna get a better space station? I'll get a-oh...

Great success!

But exactly that is a very bold statement, the numbers might be correlated but there are many things I could think of why they are probably not causing each other. Primarily both are depending, through the GDP, on the global economic situation. Both countries economies are dependent on trade with the world and show probably the same characteristics. Therefore a measure by GDP gives a less conclusive picture of the situation as it brings in extra correlative factors.

> make is that India and China spend in step with each other

That might be what they're trying to say, but the data isn't about that...

Also, China is notable for 'cooking the books' when it comes to GDP. A lot of countries do, for instance, Italy won an Ig-Nobel prize in economics for including its black market in GDP statistics to boost the numbers.

https://improbable.com/2014/10/15/ig-nobel-winner-triumphs-italy-lifts-out-of-recession-thanks-to-hookers-drugs/

The vast majority of posts about India don't make sense when you think about them...

This phenomenon is call the security dilemma, a state increasing their military security leads others to fear for their security, thus increasing their own military spending

Then you'd talk about total spending, not % of GDP.

If me and Bill Gates spend 2% of our earnings on something, we're not both spending the same amount of money.

What doesn't make sense about that?

I was just talking about the spending for their corresponding years. Yes, their magnitudes are different but it's a response to each other's spending.

Except even that isn't the same....

Most of China is under 2%, and all of India is over 2%

Some years one goes up and the other goes down.

It just looks the same because the graph is shitty and measuring something that doesn't even matter.

It clearly doesn’t. Just at first glance 1992-1993 shows an opposite direction

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How is this databeautiful??

Do you have a peer-reviewed publication that shows China's GDP is cooked?

Here's one:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165410118300399

And a link to the press release from Yale, for a more laymen-friendly version:
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/study-suggests-that-local-chinese-officials-manipulate-gdp

Here's more if you want, both evidence of manipulation, and the resulting effects:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278425422000126
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929119921001814

One of the wave has lite compression

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That's what happens when your military strategy isn't to invade, but for counter measures.

A governmental budget is never going to be equal between two countries with unequal gdps. The point is, when china increases their spending, India does too. And visa versa.

> The point is, when china increases their spending, Indian does too. And visa versa.

OPs shitty graph disagrees....

India is also making a space station.

Does it?