China has recently announced its defense spending budget for 2021, with a total of RMB 1 trillion 355.343 billion (about NT$5.8 trillion), an increase of about 6.8% compared to last year (2020). The government’s decision to increase the number of people in the country’s economy and the number of people in the country’s economy is a reflection of the pressure the country is facing.
The Chinese government’s defense spending has increased by more than 1.5 percent in the past three years.
The Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman Wu Qian said in an interview with the media on the 7th that China’s defense spending continues to maintain a moderate and stable growth, and the national fiscal arrangement for defense spending budget in 2021 is 137.9544 billion yuan, of which the central government has arranged 135.534 billion yuan ($209 billion), an increase of 6.8% over last year.
In response, U.S. scholar Xia Ming said that behind the 6.8% growth in China’s military spending, three embarrassments are revealed.
The first is that China’s economy is facing a downturn and was hit by an Epidemic last year, making the country’s domestic economy even worse with a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 2.3 percent and no guarantee that it will rebound back to the 6 percent growth the Beijing government expects this year. Therefore, the 6.8 percent growth rate for military spending naturally raises a big controversy: Why such a high military spending growth when people’s livelihoods are in trouble and the economy is in decline?
The second is that the Chinese government itself is not optimistic about the future development of the domestic and foreign situation. It is threatened not only by international competition, but also by potential instability within China, such as rebellion, national unrest, and the stability of the military itself, so the Chinese government is trying to stabilize the military and build a stronger defense capability. However, in the face of tight finances and high unemployment, the state has raised the cost of living and benefits for military personnel, which is already a bit out of reach.
China’s defense industry is a tug-of-war between the Communist Party’s military leaders and the various military branches
Finally, China’s defense industry is largely driven by the military-industrial complex and state-owned enterprises, and involves a tug-of-war between the Party’s military leaders and the various military branches. Xi Jinping wants the government to live a “tighter Life,” and all departments have to be cut, but the defense budget still cannot be cut, even if Xi Jinping wants to cut some, which reflects the strong influence of military interests within China.
Xia Ming said that for Xi Jinping, not only did he not continue to make the cake bigger, but the amount of money he had to spend kept increasing, and the government had to live a tight life, but he could not make the military live a tight life.
Other observers believe that while China’s defense budget is a step closer to Xi Jinping’s dream of a strong military, it also reveals that the “military-civilian integration” and “military-economic integration” are used to stimulate the internal The military-civilian fusion and military-economic fusion to stimulate the internal circulation and boost the domestic economy may not only fail to strengthen the military and enrich the country, but may also “strengthen the military and mislead the country”.
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