Tag: defence spending

China's government has set the country's annual increase in defence spending to 7%, in its draft budget for 2026. The target disclosed at the opening of its annual national congress, ...

South Korea's President, Lee Jae Myung has in a budget speech, called for tripling the government spending on projects for expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure and technology. In his speech at ...

Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi has stressed that Japan needs foreign workers to make up for the the shortage of labor in the country, which has a rapidly aging and declining population, but only ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said that Spain will meet the capability targets NATO members agreed upon at today's summit. Speaking at a press briefing at The Hague, Sanchez expressed ...

Germany’s Finance Minister, Lars Klingbeil has promised to lift the country’s defense spending to 3.5% of gross domestic product in 2029. This came as he presented the new government’s spending ...

Briefing the media after a NATO Defence Ministers meeting, US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth announced that there is “near consensus” on a 5% defence spending commitment for NATO member states. ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned that the United Kingdom is preparing for “war-fighting readiness” as international instability reaches levels unseen in recent decades. Addressing the public in Glasgow, ...

Head of NATO, Mark Rutte has called for a “step up” in support for Ukraine, to put Kyiv in the strongest position to achieve a sustainable peace deal with Russia. Speaking ...

Defense Secretary John Healey has unveiled a series of sweeping cuts to the UK military, marking a pivotal moment for the nation’s armed forces.  Announced on Wednesday, November 20, the ...

In his first major speech since taking up the role, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Cameron said that the West needs to undermine and expose “the malign networks that Russia uses to spread ...