BEIJING: China announced Tuesday it would boost its defense spending in 2024 as hostility over Taiwan and in the South China Sea grows.
The 7.2 percent increase, identical to last year's figure, was announced at the start of the annual meeting of the country's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC).
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