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Macron confirmed that France does indeed plan to increase its defense spending to 2percentt, but insisted that it will only do so by the 2024 deadline.
Can China afford to increase its defense budget by 8percentt annually?
The Clinton administration, under pressure from Congress, wants Germany to do more -- send thousands of troops to Kosovo, increase its defense spending, stimulate its big economy through deregulation -- just as it wants several other European allies to assume broader responsibilities.
On spending, Trump insisted in a closed-door meeting of NATO leaders that the alliance increase its defense targets to 4percentt of each country's gross domestic product — more than what the United States channels toward its military.
Why, then, has China fired missiles off the coast of Taiwan, seized islands in the South China Sea and continued to increase its defense spending at an alarming rate?
It was a clear snub to China, which was enraged at the sudden breach of a decades-old protocol, and added to the tension that has led Taiwan to increase its defense spending to 3% of its GDP (or US$11.6 billion) in 2018.
Oil-rich Norway is an exception to the trend; it is increasing its defense budget.
Germany increased its defense spending by 5percentt in 2017, but because the country saw healthy economic growth, defense spending was 1.2percentt of its GDP.
The country has increased its defense spending at a faster rate than the United States over the past decade, reaching $39 billion in 2017, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Both American companies are also looking to sell other military hardware to India, which unlike much of the Western world has been sharply increasing its defense spending.
Taiwan is increasing its defense budget and hopes to buy, among other American weapons, Patriot antimissile systems, Aegis guided-missile destroyers, long-range radar and advanced air-to-air missiles to fit on its fleet of F-16 fighters.
