{"id":140203,"date":"2025-11-11T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140203"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:00:14","slug":"taiwanese-military-struggling-to-find-enough-volunteers-even-as-spending-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140203","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese military struggling to find enough volunteers even as spending rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s military is facing a worsening manpower crisis as the numbers volunteering to serve continue to shrink.<br \/>\nThe trend has raised concerns that the shortfall could undermine combat readiness even as the government plans record levels of defence spending in response to US lobbying and the growing strength of mainland China\u2019s military.<br \/>\nAccording to a recent report by the Legislative Yuan\u2019s Budget Centre, the overall personnel fill rate \u2013 the ratio between authorised and actual troop numbers \u2013&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3332226\/taiwanese-military-struggling-find-enough-volunteers-despite-record-defence-budget?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 PostTaiwan\u2019s military is facing a worsening manpower crisis as the numbers volunteering to serve continue to shrink. The trend has raised concerns that the&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\/140203"}],"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=140203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}