World
Military Spending 1992–2025: China Grew 12× While Ukraine Reached $77.6bn
In 1992 the US spent 26 times more than China on defence; in 2025 it is 2.8 times. SIPRI data, 1992–2025, constant 2024 US$.
Arms Exports 1950–2025: The US Now Supplies 42% of the World Total
SIPRI data: in 2025 the US exported 13,980 TIV of major weapons, 41.7% of the world total, ahead of France (3,367) and Israel (2,623).
France in Numbers: 550,000 or 800,000? The Protests, the Schools and the 2027 Budget
On 17 October 2026 the Interior Ministry counted 550,000 protesters across France and organisers counted 800,000. How the movement began in school classrooms, what polls show, and what the 54 billion euro budget for 2027 contains, with each source's figures.
BRICS Summit 2026 wraps in Delhi — Xi's first India visit in 7 years
Xi Jinping's first visit to India in seven years, a 140-paragraph declaration adopted without a single dissent — and one thing the bloc still refuses to do: launch a common currency.
Global military spending: big budgets vs. big burdens
World military spending hit $2.887 trillion in 2025, 2.5% of global GDP — the highest share since 2009. But the biggest budgets and the biggest burdens are not the same countries.