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Western defence spending rises to keep ahead of China and Russia
- Monday | 18th February, 2019
China’s stated ambition to modernise its People’s Liberation Army by 2035 was “supported by defence spending that has been on a relentlessly upward trajectory”. Its stationing of an S-400 air defence system there increased Moscow’s reach in the Black Sea, where it seized three Ukrainian ships last year. MUNICH (Reuters) – The United States led a rise in Western defence spending in 2018 as it moved to keep ahead of Chinese and Russian pushes into advanced military technology, a report said on Friday. Western powers were concerned about Russia’s upgrades of air bases and air defence systems in Crimea – the peninsula it seized from Ukraine in 2014, the annual report said. “As of late 2018, doing this would mean that NATO European states would have to find an extra $102 billion, on top of the amount they currently spend,” it added.
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