{"id":147317,"date":"2026-03-05T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147317"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:00:08","slug":"china-keeps-defence-budget-growth-steady-as-modernisation-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147317","title":{"rendered":"China keeps defence budget growth steady as modernisation deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has earmarked a 7 per cent increase in defence spending this year, keeping the growth rate largely stable even as the White House aims to ramp up expenditure for the military.<br \/>\nIn a budget released on Thursday at the start of the annual session of the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC), Beijing said it would allocate 1.91 trillion yuan (US$277 billion) for defence.<br \/>\nThe 7 per cent is a shade down from the 7.2 per cent rise last year but still above the 4.5 to 5 per cent GDP growth target set&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3345588\/china-keeps-defence-budget-growth-steady-modernisation-deadline-looms?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has earmarked a 7 per cent increase in defence spending this year, keeping the growth rate largely stable even as the White House&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}