Military expenditure, United States vs China

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USA $954 billion (fell 7.5 per cent); China an estimated $336 billion (rose 7.4 per cent) — Military expenditure, United States vs China · 2025SIPRI Fact Sheet, Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 (April 2026) · 2025Source named — not yet verified

Source

SIPRI Fact Sheet, Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 (April 2026) — https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/2604_milex_2025.pdf. Matched to the source page by an automated research pass on 6 Oct 2026; not yet checked by a person..

What it proves

The US still outspends China nearly threefold, but China's budget keeps rising while America's dipped, narrowing the gap.

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