Australia will boost its military budget by more than $11 billion a year by 2025 to defend itself against possible war with China, analysts predict.
Defence spending was about $40.1 billion in the 2020 financial year and this is predicted to rise sharply to $51.26 billion five years later.
Tensions are still rising with China in an ongoing trade war Beijing started almost a year ago after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for a coronavirus inquiry.
China and Australia also have fundamental disagreements on human rights, Taiwan, and the country s increasing expansionism in the Asia-Pacific.
Scott Morrison (pictured right) and the Australian government are locked in bitter feud with Chinese President Xi Jinping (pictured left) and his Communist Party administration
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