Fu Ying, spokesperson for China’s National People’s Congress, comments on the announcement that Chinese defence spending will rise about 7% this year. She added that this equated to 1.3% of projected 2017 GDP, which is lower than the 3.3% of GDP spent by the US in 2015 on defence.
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