{"id":38663,"date":"2022-03-10T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=38663"},"modified":"2022-03-10T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:16:59","slug":"china-rejects-talk-of-hidden-military-spending-as-baseless-fantasy-with-defence-budget-set-to-mark-biggest-rise-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=38663","title":{"rendered":"China rejects talk of \u2018hidden military spending\u2019 as \u2018baseless fantasy\u2019, with defence budget set to mark biggest rise in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Chinese defence ministry has rejected speculation over any \u201chidden military spending\u201d, emphasising that China\u2019s defence budget still lags far behind that of the United States.The comments from ministry spokesman Wu Qian came after Beijing revealed a 7.1 per cent rise in defence spending this year \u2013 the fastest pace of growth since 2019.The increase would take the military budget to 1.45 trillion yuan (US$230 billion), up from a 6.8 per cent increase in 2021 and a 6.6 per cent rise in 2020\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3169965\/chinas-rejects-talk-hidden-military-spending-baseless-fantasy?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 PostThe Chinese defence ministry has rejected speculation over any \u201chidden military spending\u201d, emphasising that China\u2019s defence budget still lags far behind that of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38664,"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\/38663"}],"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=38663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}