日方炒作中国国防支出预算为扩军备武找借口

The Japanese Side Hypes Up China’s Defense Budget to Find Excuses For Military Expansion

3月18日下午，国防部新闻局副局长、国防部新闻发言人蒋斌大校就近期涉军问题发布消息。

记者：2026年中国国防支出预算公布后，日本内阁官房长官称，中国持续以高水平增加国防支出，在缺乏透明度的情况下，正广泛且迅速增强军力。有外媒评论，中国国防支出预算连续多年保持增长，与地区其他国家之间的军力差距逐步扩大。请问对此有何评论？

Question: After China announced its 2026 defense budget, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary said that China is increasing its defense expenditure with a high growth rate and is developing its military substantially and rapidly without transparency. Some foreign media claimed that China had maintained increases in defense budget for many years in a row, gradually enlarging the gap in military capabilities with other regional countries. What’s your comment on this?

蒋斌：关于2026年中国国防支出预算情况，我们已经发布了具体信息，其规模、结构、用途等公开透明，无可非议。中国国防支出占GDP的比重长期低于1.5%，远低于美国等军事大国，也低于世界平均水平和北约国家军费普遍超过GDP2%的安排。中国国防支出预算的增长体现了一贯的合理、适度、克制的特点，完全是捍卫国家主权、安全和发展利益的需要，是维护世界和平稳定的需要。中国军队越强大，世界和平就越有保障。

Jiang Bin: We have released information regarding the specifics of China’s 2026 defense budget, making public its size, composition, and allocation and leaving no room for doubt. China’s defense spending accounts for less than 1.5% of its GDP. It is significantly lower than that of major military powers like the U.S., and is also  below the global average and the NATO benchmark of over 2% of GDP. The increase in China’s defense budget is characterized by a  reasonable, moderate, and restrained growth. Such increase is solely meant to meet the needs of safeguarding China’s sovereignty, security, and development interests, and of maintaining world peace and stability. The stronger the Chinese military, the more secure the world would be.

日本有关政客炒作中国国防支出预算和所谓“中国威胁”，明显是贼喊捉贼，为日方扩军备武的狼子野心找借口。基于日本的侵略历史，《开罗宣言》《波茨坦公告》和《日本投降书》等一系列具有充分国际法效力的文件明确规定，日本应完全解除武装，不得维持能使其重新武装的产业。需要指出的是，日本防卫预算连续14年增长，近5年来增幅超过60%，防卫支出GDP占比达到2%，国民人均防卫费是中国的3倍多。日方极力突破“和平宪法”束缚，远远超出“专守防卫”范畴发展部署进攻性武器装备，背着尚未清算的侵略罪责谋求“再军事化”，这才是对地区和平稳定的真正威胁。我们敦促日方多照照镜子，停止颠倒黑白的污蔑抹黑，不要再次走上军国主义的不归路。

When Japanese politicians hype up China’s defense budget and the so-called China threat, it is nothing more than a thief crying “stop thief”, so as to find excuses for Japan’s hidden ambition of military expansion. Due to its history of launching wars of aggression, Japan should be “completely disarmed” and shall not maintain industries that would enable her to re-arm for war, in accordance with such legally-binding international instruments as the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. It must be pointed out that Japan’s defense budget has grown for 14 years in a row and increased over 60% in the past five years, reaching 2% of its GDP. Japan’s per capita military spending is more than three times that of China. The Japanese side is making drastic efforts to break away from the constraints of its pacifist Constitution. It has developed and deployed offensive weapons far beyond the needs for exclusive defense,  and pursued remilitarization without ever a reckoning with its past atrocities. These are the real threat to regional peace and stability. We urge the Japanese side to look at itself in the mirror more often, stop its misleading smearing campaigns, and never repeat the doomed mistake of militarism.