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China continues to splurge with $177 billion defence budget
China announced its defence budget for the coming year during the National People’s Congress (NPC) session on 5 March. Expenditure will rise 7.5% to RMB1.19 trillion ($177.61 billion) on the occasion of the communist country’s 70th anniversary of its founding.
This figure compares with RMB1 ...
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