{"id":146583,"date":"2026-02-22T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146583"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:00:26","slug":"how-trumps-beijing-bargaining-could-derail-taiwans-multibillion-dollar-defence-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146583","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Beijing bargaining could derail Taiwan\u2019s multibillion-dollar defence budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s parliament is set to prioritise review of a disputed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget bill when its new session begins on Tuesday, as pressure mounts from Washington.<br \/>\nBut US President Donald Trump\u2019s recent remarks about consulting Chinese President Xi Jinping on arms sales could complicate the debate, potentially giving Taipei\u2019s opposition parties greater room to manoeuvre and reshape the final version of the bill, according to analysts.<br \/>\nThe renewed push follows&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3344220\/how-trumps-beijing-bargaining-could-derail-taiwans-multibillion-dollar-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 parliament is set to prioritise review of a disputed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget bill when its new session begins on&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\/146583"}],"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=146583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}