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By The Numbers
Each week, we'll share with you some of the most compelling numbers in our studies.
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** 6.6%
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At China’s National People’s Congress, officials revealed that spending on national defense in 2020 would rise to 1.268 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.6%—the lowest in decades.
SOURCE: "Breaking Down China’s 2020 Defense Budget," by CSIS's Bonnie Glaser, Matthew Funaiole, and Brian Hart.
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** 40%
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Had the United States not withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017, nearly 40% of the global economy would have been covered by a single trade agreement.
SOURCE: "Stepping Up Trade Leadership," by CSIS's Trade Commission on Affirming American Trade Leadership and the CSIS iDeas Lab.
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** 28%
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In April, a simultaneous collapse in oil prices and a 33% drop in economic activity resulted in Russia's GDP contracting a staggering 28%.
SOURCE: "Responding to a Pandemic, Putin Trades Russia’s Future for His Own," By Cyrus Newlin and Heather Conley.
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** 34,000
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From September 2015 to January 2018, Russian air forces carried out over 34,000 combat sorties in Syria.
SOURCE: "Moscow’s War in Syria," by CSIS's Seth Jones, Brian Katz, Jason Gresh, Nick Harrington, and Edmund Xavier Loughran.
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