{"id":75758,"date":"2025-12-26T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/26\/japan-defence-budget-china"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:16:07","slug":"japans-cabinet-approves-record-defence-budget-amid-escalating-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75758","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s cabinet approves record defence budget amid escalating China tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese strike-back capabilities and coastal defences to be boosted while Beijing accuses Tokyo of fuelling a \u2018space arms race\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s cabinet has approved a record high defence budget as tensions with China continue to spiral, with Beijing this week accusing Tokyo of \u201cfuelling a space arms race\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The draft defence budget for the next fiscal year \u2013 approved on Friday \u2013 is more than \u00a59tn ($58bn) and 9.4% bigger than the previous budget, which will end in April. The increase comes in the fourth year of Japan\u2019s five-year program to double its annual arms spending to 2% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/26\/japan-defence-budget-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese strike-back capabilities and coastal defences to be boosted while Beijing accuses Tokyo of fuelling a \u2018space arms race\u2019Japan\u2019s cabinet has approved a record high defence budget as tensions with China continue to spiral, with Beijing this week &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,88,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75758","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75759,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75758\/revisions\/75759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}