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China presents annual budget, increases defence spending by 7.5%

China has increased its defence budget by 7.5 per cent for this year, hiking it to $177.61 billion from last year's $175 billion. It is over three times India's defence budget.

China hikes defence budget by 7.5% to $177.61 billion

The increase of China's defence budget by 8.1% this year, is three times higher than India's latest defence budget of about $46 billion.

China increases defence budget to $175 billion, three times higher than India's