{"id":4090,"date":"2025-01-14T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T08:13:08","slug":"scholtz-again-spoke-out-against-donald-trumps-demand-for-higher-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Scholtz again spoke out against Donald Trump&#8217;s demand for higher military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4091\" title=\"a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55.png\" alt=\"a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55.png 1260w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/a04b2f9de0950f55c0a6c25f29329f55-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\" \/><br \/>\nOn the 13th, local time, German Chancellor Scholtz, during an election campaign in Bielefeld, reiterating its opposition to president-elect Trans&#8217;s call for NATO countries to increase their defense budgets to 5 percent of their gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p>Scholtz said a defence budget of 5 per cent of gross domestic product would mean military spending of more than $200bn, compared with the current federal budget of less than $500bn. But Scholtz promised to stick to a NATO target of at least 2% of GDP for military spending.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, German defense minister Pistorius also said that he did not agree with Donald Trump&#8217;s request to raise NATO members&#8217; defense spending to 5% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p>German chancellor Angela Scholtz made clear her opposition to Mr. . Donald Trump&#8217;s request for NATO countries to increase military spending when she took part in an online talk show on July 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 13th, local time, German Chancellor Scholtz, during an election campaign in Bielefeld, reiterating its opposition to president-elect Trans&#8217;s call for NATO countries to increase their defense budgets to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,266],"tags":[526,350,1172,1603,1602],"views":334,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}