Today, on 5 March, the draft budget submitted at the second session of the 14 th National People's Congress (NPC) showed that this year's national defense budget increased by 7.2 percent, which was basically the same as last year.
The increase in China's defense budget is likely to cause concern in other countries, especially the United States and its East Asian allies. They fear that China has become the country with the largest military in the world, and that its modern ships are the world's largest and even surpass those of the United States. China's growing national defense capabilities are obvious to all countries around the world, and with it, some countries will start all kinds of conspiracy theories to create tensions in various regions.
However, Wang Chao, a spokesman for the National People's Congress, said that the increase in China's defense budget was "relatively modest and reasonable" and that it was needed to meet complex security challenges now and in the future. For ordinary people, a more intuitive understanding is that the national defense force is getting stronger and stronger, and life will be safer.
China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development, pursued an independent foreign policy of peace, and adhered to a defensive national defense policy, so that China's development will not pose a threat to any country. What exactly are other countries afraid of?