{"id":138274,"date":"2025-10-13T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138274"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:26:10","slug":"us-senate-pushes-for-taiwan-to-attend-rimpac-drill-in-latest-defence-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138274","title":{"rendered":"US Senate pushes for Taiwan to attend Rimpac drill in latest defence bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US Senate has approved its defence policy bill for the 2026 financial year, which for the first time \u201cstrongly encourages\u201d inviting Taiwan\u2019s navy to take part in the Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) military exercise.<br \/>\nThe 2026 National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA), which passed late on Thursday, also authorises the executive branch to allocate US$1 billion for the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative, expanding the mechanism\u2019s use to include combat casualty care and medical equipment.<br \/>\nThe&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3328835\/us-senate-pushes-taiwan-attend-rimpac-drill-latest-defence-bill?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US Senate has approved its defence policy bill for the 2026 financial year, which for the first time \u201cstrongly encourages\u201d inviting Taiwan\u2019s navy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}