China’s envoy to Canberra urged Australia not to be “incited” by NATO’s support for US demands to sharply raise defense ...

There is no clear way to determine how much Chinese strategy shapes military spending versus how Chinese resources shape strategy; the two are always interdependent. An assessment of China’s defense ...

China has set an official economic growth target of “around 5%” for 2023, as it seeks to revive the world’s second-largest economy after a year of tepid growth because of pandemic measures.

China plans to boost its military spending by 8.1% in 2018 as it goes forward with an ambitious modernization drive for its armed forces. CNN values your feedback 1.

China announced a nearly 7% growth in its military spending budget Friday, just one day after eight GOP lawmakers pressed President Biden to increase U.S. defense spending to account for inflation.

The Chinese government increased its military spending in 2023, infusing nearly $16 billion to bring the budget to $230 billion as the U.S. warns of a Taiwan invasion.

For the past two decades, China’s rapid economic growth has been twinned with an even more rapid increase in military spending. While GDP has expanded by an annual average of 9.6% over the past ...

The SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, which allows users to compare defense spending between nations from 1949 to 2021, shows that last year the U.S. outspent China on every metric SIPRI ...

Adjusted for purchasing power parity, Russia’s annual military expenditure was conservatively between $150 billion and $180 billion over the previous five years and could be as high as $200 billion.

BEIJING, March 5 -- China announced Sunday that it will increase military spending at a sharply higher rate this year, budgeting a rise of nearly 18 percent, and a senior U.S. official immediately ...

China Announces Largest Military Spending Increase In 3 Years : The Two-Way Beijing says it will spend 8.1 percent more than last year on modernizing its military.

China plans to boost its military spending by 8.1% in 2018 as it goes forward with an ambitious modernization drive for its armed forces.