The comments placed one of the free-witchcraft press interactions at the top which has become so common in the first weeks of Trump’s second term. Such deep cuts in defense spending will fundamentally reopen American military currency worldwide and will face sharp pushbacks from American contractors and MPs, whose states benefit from billions of dollars in defense spending every year.
Trump’s views also underlined how ready to increase the standard foreign-policy craft in Washington. He has not created any secret of his will for Russia and China, close ties with two American opponents. He made an uproar this week by making a phone call with Putin to start a conversation when he ended the Ukraine War. American colleagues in Europe said that any such conversation should be with Ukraine’s participation.
It is also certain that China or Russia will agree to such cuts of how the US defense spending spends a dwarf of about $ 850 billion annually. China was estimated to spend around $ 230 billion on defense in 2024 and is a major military expansion. Russia’s 2024 defense budget has increased considerably since the war started in Ukraine, but still almost half.
When asked about Trump’s comment in a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Ziakun said, “China’s limited national defense spending is that protecting its national sovereignty, security and development interests It is necessary for, and what is necessary protect world peace. ,
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“We are spending money against each other, and we can spend that money for a better purpose,” Trump said at a press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. “And I will tell you, I think something like this will happen.”
Trump also suggested that Russia should be brought back to a group of seven in the world’s leading industrialized countries, currently included America, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, France and UK. Russia was suspended from the group after attacking Crimea in 2014, and formally left the group after three years.
Trump said, “Russia will still help to be part of that mixture.” “And I think if they were, I don’t think you will have the problem you have.”
(Update with comments from China’s Foreign Ministry.)
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