Chinese Defense Spending To Rise Amid Slowing Economy

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LONDON, BEIJING—China will increase its military budget in 2020 despite the possibility of dramatically reduced economic growth, maintaining pressure on neighboring countries to keep increasing their defense spending. The defense budget will rise by 6.6% to 1.268 trillion yuan ($179.2 billion)...
Craig Caffrey

Craig works as a senior analyst on Aviation Week Network’s military and commercial forecast databases, specializing in military aircraft markets and…

Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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