{"id":63502,"date":"2024-04-22T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/global-defence-budget-jumps-to-record-high-of-2440bn"},"modified":"2024-04-22T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:01:08","slug":"global-defence-budget-jumps-to-record-high-of-2440bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63502","title":{"rendered":"Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions, Sipri thinktank finds<\/p>\n<p>Global military expenditure has reached a record high of $2440bn (\u00a31970bn) after the largest annual rise in government spending on arms in over a decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/\">according to a report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/global-defence-budget-jumps-to-record-high-of-2440bn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions, Sipri thinktank findsGlobal military expenditure has reached a record high of $2440bn (\u00a31970bn) after the largest annual rise in government spending on arms in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"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":[246,709,41,50,221,62,1405,938,419,61,52,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-arms-trade","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-india","category-mexico","category-military","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","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\/63502","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63503,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63502\/revisions\/63503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}