Beijing has long perfected the art of budgetary camouflage. Significant sums are routinely hidden off the official balance ...

Wu said national defence spending would rise to 1.81 trillion yuan (US$250 billion) this year, including 1.78 trillion yuan allocated at the central level. China’s military budget, the world’s ...

Former military leaders are raising concerns as China has begun rolling out new funding initiatives in countries like ...

Sabre-rattling China is set to boost its defence spending by 7.2% after threatening America with 'any war' amid a furious row over Donald Trump's planned tariffs. The communist state announced the ...

The US has also urged its allies including Japan, South Korea, and Europe to raise their military spending ratio to 2 percent or higher. China's defense spending has not exceeded 2 percent of GDP ...

The drills came after Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, announced measures to counter China’s influence and espionage.

However, Taiwan spending 10 percent of its GDP on military spending, as suggested by US undersecretary of defense for policy ...

China has announced a 7.2% increase in its defence budget, bringing the official figure to over $245 billion. However, experts believe the actual expenditure is at least 40-50% higher due to ...

Such portrayals of China's defense spending and routine military training aim to depict China as a "threat" to regional security. "The fabrication of the so-called China military threat reflects ...

Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te said Thursday that the island’s defense budget will exceed 3% of its economic output as it overhauls its military in the face of the rising threat from China.