{"id":53117,"date":"2023-03-04T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/04\/china-military-budget-increase-again-appropriate-level"},"modified":"2023-03-04T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:58:48","slug":"china-says-military-budget-to-increase-again-by-appropriate-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53117","title":{"rendered":"China says military budget to increase again by \u2018appropriate\u2019 level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson does not specify figure but announces rise is needed to meet complex security challenges<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military budget is set to increase again, the spokesperson for its rubber-stamping parliament has said, before a week-long political meeting expected to make big changes to China\u2019s system of governance and increase measures to combat international sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the National People\u2019s Congress, China\u2019s legislative body, addressed the media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/03\/xi-jinping-to-tighten-communist-partys-grip-with-overhaul-of-chinas-government-at-key-meeting\">on the eve of its annual meeting<\/a> to outline the week\u2019s agenda, including changes to the constitution and the legal sector, and endorsing new appointments to senior roles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/04\/china-military-budget-increase-again-appropriate-level\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson does not specify figure but announces rise is needed to meet complex security challengesChina\u2019s military budget is set to increase again, the spokesperson for its rubber-stamping parliament has said, before a week-long political meeting ex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53118,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117\/revisions\/53118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}