Beijing Swings Defense Spending Toward Equipment

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The world has seen plenty of evidence this decade of the swing in Chinese defense policy from manpower-heavy to equipment-heavy spending. Now Beijing is quantifying what it has done. The share of defense funding allocated to equipment rose relentlessly to a record level of 41.3% of spending in 2016...

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