{"id":141580,"date":"2025-12-02T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141580"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:22:15","slug":"taiwan-opposition-blocks-us40-billion-defence-budget-prompting-dpp-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141580","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan opposition blocks US$40 billion defence budget, prompting DPP protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s opposition lawmakers on Tuesday blocked a proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget from being placed on the agenda for review this week.<br \/>\nThe suspension prompted angry protests from the ruling independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), injecting fresh uncertainty into Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te\u2019s ambitious military modernisation plan.<br \/>\nThe legislature\u2019s procedure committee voted down Lai\u2019s government\u2019s request to schedule the bill for a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3334936\/taiwan-opposition-blocks-us40-billion-defence-budget-prompting-protests-ruling-dpp?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 opposition lawmakers on Tuesday blocked a proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget from being placed on the agenda for review this&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\/141580"}],"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=141580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}