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china spends more money in internal security than military defense[0]: 121 B$ vs 119 B$

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-defence-...




Which translates to less than 2% in public security and policing, i.e. less as % of GDP relative to US. All this number shows is PRC doesn't spend much on military and about EU levels on policing but gets misconstrued as PRC overspending on domestic security. That's true for every NATO country that underspends on military.




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