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Backsliders now promise to raise defence spending.

Mr Ma has promised to raise defence spending but has failed to do so, though China's military build-up continues.

The Duma is considering a bill to raise defence spending by 10 billion roubles ($400m): a huge sum by Russian standards, even if a pinprick in NATO terms.On its own, this does not necessarily mean many headaches for the West.

Cameron can't really say, "I notice that the Honourable Gentleman doesn't raise defence policy since he is all for getting out of Nato and abandoning Trident," when it's Marie who is asking what the Government is doing about "the chronic lack of affordable housing and … extortionate rents".

Mr Romney and his running-mate, Paul Ryan, have indicated that they would not change Social Security or Medicare (pensions and health care for the elderly) for the currently, or soon to be, retired.Mr Romney would also raise defence spending to 4% of GDP from 3%, where it is now heading.

But they have also agreed to a tax cut which leaves scant room for manoeuvre; and any further moves to raise defence spending will tempt the Democrats to call for more spending in other areas.Already the Democrats, relishing their freshly won control of the Senate, are taking the defence secretary to task for being in too much of a hurry to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty.

Lithuania is raising defence spending to 1.1% of GDP in 2015, and aims to reach NATO's recommended 2% target in 2020.Still, harsh words like Ms Grybauskaitė's could do more harm than good.

Abe, a conservative who has raised defence spending to counter an increasingly assertive China, provoked outrage in Beijing and Seoul in December 2013 when he paid his respects at Yasukuni, although he has since stayed away.

But the reform plans imply that Berlin has no intention of raising defence spending from a feeble 1.5% of GDP, one of the lowest among big rich countries (see chart).Inside Germany, the main issue remains conscription and the Zivildienst, the civilian alternative to military service.

The panels raised defences to about 2.5 metres.

China announced this month that it would raise its defence budget by 11%.