A Type 071 comprehensive landing ship is carrying Chinese troops on their way to participate in a large-scale joint exercise with Cambodia, marking yet another major event in a busy month of foreign military exchanges by the Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA).
It is likely that China will continue its trend of steadily and reasonably increasing its military expenditure in 2023, according to predictions made by experts and analysts the Global Times has reached, as they cited China’s national defense modernization and the security tensions China is being confronted with among the reasons that incentivize the growth.
A defense budget draft for the year 2023 is expected to be released at the opening of the annual session of the National People s Congress (NPC), the country s top legislature, on Sunday.