China boosts peacekeeping budget share amid warnings UN may be sidelined
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SIPRI says Beijing’s participation in such UN missions helps ‘project an image of itself as a responsible major power’.

China was the second-largest financial contributor to the UN peacekeeping mission after the US last year, with its share rising “substantially” as geopolitical tensions increasingly paralysed multilateral peace operations, according to a Swedish think tank. In a report on multilateral peace operations in 2025 released on Monday, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said that 78,633 international personnel had been deployed with UN peace operations by December 31 – some 49…

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