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China's Military Build-up

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(CNN) -- Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting.

In March, China announced its 2007 defense budget would increase 17.8% year over year to approximately $45 billion. But the Pentagon's best estimate is that China's 2007 defense expenditures could fall between $85-$125 billion.

Source: DOD testimony 6/13/07 et al

Our trade deficit with China ran $232 billion last year.

Source: Dept. of Commerce

Illegal Immigration & Wage Reduction

Illegal (and legal) immigration reduces wages:

• By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4 percent.

• Among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce, the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4%.

Source: Center for Immigration Studies

13 children die after fire erupts in Qatar mall's nursery A fire erupted in a nursery in a shopping mall in Qatar's capital city, Doha, late Monday morning, killing 19 people, at least 13 of them children, a govern ...

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