Thursday, June 26, 2025

DEFENSE_ China on Alert as NATO Boosts Defense Spending

THE EPOCH TIMES 

China on Alert as NATO Boosts Defense Spending 

The CCP criticized alliance’s push to increase military budgets to 5 percent of GDP.


Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (2nd L), US President Donald Trump (3rd L), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (C), Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof (3rd R) attend a NATO leaders summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images 

Emel Akan 
Reporter 
6/26/2025|Updated: 6/26/2025 


AMSTERDAM—As NATO leaders gathered in the Netherlands this week to unveil a historic pledge to ramp up defense spending, Beijing was watching nervously from the other side of the world. 

The Chinese Communist regime issued a flurry of statements, accusing NATO of “stoking confrontation” and questioning the alliance’s intentions. 

At this year’s summit, NATO allies agreed to dramatically increase their defense spending targets to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a significant increase from the 2 percent benchmark set during a summit in Wales in 2014. 

During the summit, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte sounded the alarm over Beijing’s support for Russia, its accelerating military buildup, and the rising threat of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) criticized NATO’s push to increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP. 

“NATO countries already account for 55 percent of the world’s total military spending in 2024. Yet they’re still required to raise defense investment to 5 percent of GDP to build a ‘more lethal NATO,’ a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Guo Jiakun, said during a press briefing on Jun 26. 

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