{"id":1207,"date":"2017-02-23T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:43:30","slug":"increase-in-global-arms-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/increase-in-global-arms-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in global arms exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1208 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-content\/uploads\/sipri-arms-transfers.jpg?resize=338%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"294\" \/>The Stockholm International Peace Resarch Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2017\/increase-arms-transfers-driven-demand-middle-east-and-asia-says-sipri\">report an increase in arms transfers<\/a> driven by demand in the Middle East and Asia. \u00a0The flow of arms increased to Asia and Oceania and the Middle East between 2007\u201311 and\u00a02012\u201316, while there was a decrease in the flow to Europe, the Americas and Africa. The<br \/>\nfive biggest exporters\u2014the United States, Russia, China, France and Germany\u2014together\u00a0accounted for 74 per cent of the total volume of arms exports.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"js-quickedit-page-title\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stockholm International Peace Resarch Institute report an increase in arms transfers driven by demand in the Middle East and Asia. \u00a0The flow of arms increased to Asia and Oceania and the Middle East between 2007\u201311 and\u00a02012\u201316, while there was a decrease in the flow to Europe, the Americas and Africa. The five biggest exporters\u2014the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Increase in global arms exports\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/increase-in-global-arms-transfers\/#more-1207\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Increase in global arms exports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}