China, ‘current defense expenditure is completely necessary’

The current expenditure for the defense of China is “completely necessary”. This is what the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Lin Jian commented, after Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the proposal of the American counterpart Donald Trump according to which Russia, USA and China should halve the respective military budgets. “China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development. A limited defense expenditure is completely necessary to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests and to maintain peace in the world,” Lin said, in Course of daily briefing.