India needs a heftier defence budget to deter china

From Air To Sea: India Needs A Heftier Defence Budget To Deter China, Fight Two-Front War Amid heightened military tensions with China and war clouds hovering over the Eastern Ladakh region, where Chinese soldiers intruded into the Indian territory almost four years ago, the Narendra Modi government has sanctioned a modest hike of 4.72 percent in India’s defence budget for 2024-25. India’s defence budget over the last two years saw a clear imprint of China’s aggression in Eastern Ladakh, as the government had to make heavy additional provision to enable armed forces to be ready to counter any further aggression on the undemarcated 3,488-km-long border. China has deployed more than 50,000 soldiers, an unprecedented move posing threat to Indian sovereignty, on the Eastern Ladakh sector of India-China border. To deter the Chinese forces from further advancing into Indian territory, right from Arunachal Pradesh to Ladakh, the Indian armed forces had to make matching deployment and make emergency procurement and acquire new weapon systems. [Read more](/dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29t/aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZuZXdzLmFicGxpdmUuY29tJTJGaW5kaWEtYXQtMjA0NyUyRmluZGlhLWRlZmVuY2UtYnVkZ2V0LW5lZWRzLXNpZ25pZmljYW50LWluY3JlYXNlLWxhYy1zdGFuZG9mZi1jaGluYS1wYWtpc3Rhbi10d28tZnJvbnQtd2FyLWFicHAtMTY2MTc3MA==)  We respect your privacy. If you are not interested in receiving further emails, please Click [here](/dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29t)