Sentence examples for increasing its defense from inspiring English sources

Oil-rich Norway is an exception to the trend; it is increasing its defense budget.

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.

But NATO will be able to add muscle to its military only by increasing its defense spending, now averaging 1.7 percent of gross domestic product across the 28-nation alliance.

Taiwan is taking things even further, increasing its defense spending by 50% in 2018.

Driven by fears of Russian aggression, worries about older weaponry and equipment, and a not-completely-altruistic desire to protect neighboring Moldova, the government is committed to increasing its defense spending over the next decade.

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?

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.

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?

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.