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BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) – China will increase military
spending by 12.2 percent this year to 808.23 billion yuan, the
government announced on Wednesday, building on a nearly unbroken
succession of double-digit rises in the defence budget across
two decades.
(Reporting by Michael Martina and Li Hui; Writing by Ben
Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel)
