{"id":145877,"date":"2026-02-10T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145877"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:00:13","slug":"will-taiwan-meet-submarine-delivery-deadline-unlock-defence-budget-with-hai-kun-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145877","title":{"rendered":"Will Taiwan meet submarine delivery deadline, unlock defence budget with Hai Kun tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan has conducted a series of shallow-water submerged tests of its indigenous submarine prototype over the past two weeks, marking a key step towards potential navy delivery as early as June.<br \/>\nThe Hai Kun, or Narwhal, is part of the island\u2019s Indigenous Defence Submarine programme, a project widely seen as central to its efforts to boost asymmetric naval capabilities amid increasing military pressure from Beijing.<br \/>\nSurface navigation tests began last year, with undersea trials and weapons&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342948\/will-taiwan-meet-submarine-delivery-deadline-unlock-defence-budget-hai-kun-tests?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 has conducted a series of shallow-water submerged tests of its indigenous submarine prototype over the past two weeks, marking a key step towards&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\/145877"}],"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=145877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}