{"id":25259,"date":"2019-05-12T03:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=25259"},"modified":"2019-05-12T03:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T03:55:41","slug":"according-to-stockholm-international-peace-research-institute-sipri-report-______-country-became-the-worlds-biggest-military-spender-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/according-to-stockholm-international-peace-research-institute-sipri-report-______-country-became-the-worlds-biggest-military-spender-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report, ______ country became the world\u2019s biggest Military Spender in 2018 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Pakistan<br \/>\n2) Saudi Arabia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3) US<\/span><br \/>\n4) China<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe United States which retains its title as the world\u2019s biggest military spender \u2014 raised its spending for the first time in seven years to $649 billion in 2018. The US spent almost as much on defense in 2018. The US\u2019 military spending increased for the 1st time since 2010, by hiking by 4.6% to reach 649 $ billion in 2018. The report also notified that the US\u2019 expenditure comprises 36% of global military spending and is almost equal to the combined expenditure of the next 8 largest spending countries together.China\u2019s expenditure has risen for the 24th consecutive year to hike by 5% more to reach $250 billion, thus representing 14% of the world\u2019s military expenditure. This amount is 10 times higher than the amount spent by Beijing in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Pakistan 2) Saudi Arabia 3) US 4) China Explanation: The United States which retains its title as the world\u2019s biggest military spender \u2014 raised its spending for the first time in seven years to $649 billion in 2018. The US spent almost as much on defense in 2018. The US\u2019 military spending increased for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}