{"id":141258,"date":"2025-11-26T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141258"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:04:08","slug":"taiwanese-leader-lai-pledges-us40-billion-rise-in-defence-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141258","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese leader Lai pledges US$40 billion rise in defence spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has set out plans for an unprecedented rise in defence spending worth US$40 billion over the next eight years, describing it as a historic investment to safeguard the island\u2019s democracy and deter an increasingly assertive Beijing.<br \/>\nIn an article for The Washington Post published on Wednesday, Lai said his government had committed to \u201csignificantly increase\u201d military expenditure to 3.3 per cent of gross domestic product next year, then raise it further to 5&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3334251\/taiwanese-leader-pledges-us40-billion-rise-defence-spending-defend-democracy?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 PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has set out plans for an unprecedented rise in defence spending worth US$40 billion over the next eight years,&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\/141258"}],"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=141258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}