China to raise defense spending by 7.2% in 2025

[william]

China on Wednesday increased its defense spending by 7.2% this year, the same growth rate as in the prior two years.

The increased defense budget, well above China’s economic growth target for this year of roughly 5%, comes as Western governments seek to ratchet up military spending to bolster their own security.

When asked on Tuesday about China’s defense spending, Lou Qinjian, spokesperson for the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress, told reporters that “peace needs to be safeguarded with strength.”

That’s according to an official translation of his Mandarin-language remarks.

China remains the world’s second largest military spender behind the U.S. which has set the military budget for 2025 at $850 billion.

Separately, expenditures earmarked for public security this year was raised by 7.3%, the official statement showed, a sharp increase compared with the 1.4% rise last year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/china-to-raise-defense-spending-by-7point2percent-in-2025.html

 

[alphaecho]

El ejército chino afirma que su actividad en torno a Taiwán se ha convertido en "la norma" | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Chinese military says its activity around Taiwan has become 'the norm' | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

https://twitter.com/x/status/1898762329224859826

 

[alphaecho]

China threatens Taiwan again, speaks of ‘tightening noose’ and 'hanging swords' if separatist movements grow

https://twitter.com/x/status/1898761714641834041

 

[Publius]

Well China will either bankrupt themselves or start another regional war

 

[Torch]

Well China will either bankrupt themselves or start another regional war

Or raise the price of the low end consumer goods offered at Wally’s Market. The US, unwilling to learn from selling oil and scrap metal to Japan, will pay for Chinese J-20’s one POC at a time from box stores. We are literal paying for our (attempted) impending doom.

We cannot be the same country that won two back to back world war titles and went off-roading on Luna after playing the back nine. (looks in the mirror <bought a Walmart> and doesn’t like what he sees) I am not a pimple of the arse of the single most lacking man that landed at Normandy or Tarawa. We simply cannot be them…

 

[Torch]

Hopefully about the time their now massive infrastructure starts aging and costing more in repairs than the construction costs, their aging populations (raised expectations) health care costs coupled with the fact that they will be spending more than is reasonable for any peacetime country on war fighting, should advance them nicely into the western countries financial model.

 

[Torch]

I still vote that we park a ballistic Ohio (say the Tennessee…) in Hualien, and swim away (it’s an underwater submarine base .. maybe) whilst tossing the keys and the PAL codes to some displaced Cantonese ensign and saying:
“最好嘅祝福。多謝所有魚!”


(Not unproductive, I am as serious as I am, no doubt, short sighted)

 

[Publius]

I still vote that we park a ballistic Ohio (say the Tennessee…) in Hualien, and swim away (it’s an underwater submarine base .. maybe) whilst tossing the keys and the PAL codes to some displaced Cantonese ensign and saying:
“最好嘅祝福。多謝所有魚!”


(Not unproductive, I am as serious as I am, no doubt, short sighted)

Serious but short sighted is a very very common infirmity amongst most strategic analyst and politicians world wide.

I’ve come to believe sun zhu was actually a post script narrative of lessons learned and what not to do. Not a actual instruction on strategy. Kinda like the Aesop fables for war