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Frederico Bartels

Frederico Bartels is a policy analyst for defense budgeting at the Heritage Foundation's Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
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China’s Defense Spending Is Larger Than It Looks

Accounting for true purchasing power, Beijing’s military budget is about 87% of America’s.

  • Frederico Bartels
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The Fiscal Calm Before the Storm

Next year’s budget will face three pressures that make it unlikely to be characterized as sustained or predictable.

  • Frederico Bartels