The article discusses how China plans to raise its Defense Spending this year by 7.2%, which is the highest rate since 2019. This is in response to increasing tensions with the United States in the Indo-Pacific and over Taiwan. The article also mentions that Taiwan is one of the main points of tension between Beijing and Washington, and that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would not take place by the end of the decade because the costs of aggression remain unacceptably high to Beijing.

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