Beijing.- China will increase its defense spending by 7.1% this yearaccording to a preliminary report presented today at the inaugural session of the Chinese Legislature (National People’s Assembly, ANP), the most important political event of the year in the Asian country.
In 2021 the military budget of the Asian giantwhich has remained around 1.3% of GDP in recent years, grew 6.8% to 1.35 trillion yuan (208,471 million dollars or 174,367 million euros).
The data is released after a year of growing tensions with Taiwan, a territory over which China claims sovereigntyand while Europe is going through a serious moment due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, one of Beijing’s main allies.
world context
The news about the increase in Chinese military spending It came amid an exchange of statements between officials from the Russian government and from other countries, mainly the United States. Just a few hours ago, the White House ruled out targeting the assassination of President Vladimir Putin.
This was proposed by legislator LindSay Graham, however, he did not receive support from other US senators or from the Executive branch itself.
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed yesterday that Westerners are the ones who cannot “get the issue of a possible nuclear war out of their heads”, and that on the contrary, their country speaks little about it.
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Until then, the statement could seem pacifist, but in the same video he stressed that “obviously” a possible escalation of the third world war would have to be fought with nuclear weapons.
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