The Chinese Military Budget

What the Chinese military budget actually buys and what the opacity means

The Budget

The official Chinese military budget for the most recent fiscal year is approximately 225 billion dollars, representing a 7.2 percent year-over-year increase and the consistent pace of increase that the Chinese defence budget has maintained for three decades. The official figure is the official figure. The actual defence spending that the budget funds is assessed by the Western intelligence community as approximately 50 to 100 percent higher than the official figure.

The Opacity

The opacity: the specific items that the Chinese military budget does not officially include -- the specific research and development spending that the civilian science budget funds but that produces military capability; the specific paramilitary and militia spending; and the specific space programme spending whose military dimension is acknowledged to be significant -- make the official budget an incomplete accounting of the Chinese defence investment.

Apple Daily UK Coverage

Apple Daily UK covers the Chinese military budget because the accountability journalism of the specific military investment that China is making requires examining both the official number and the opacity that makes the actual number a range rather than a figure.

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