{"id":147435,"date":"2026-03-07T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147435"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:00:12","slug":"taiwan-starts-review-of-defence-bill-as-competing-proposals-expose-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147435","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan starts review of defence bill as competing proposals expose divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s legislature has agreed to begin reviewing a long-stalled special defence budget, but competing opposition proposals are set to complicate passage of the government\u2019s NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) plan despite mounting pressure from the United States.<br \/>\nLawmakers began scrutinising the bill on Friday, as three rival proposals from the island\u2019s main political parties exposed deep divisions over how much Taiwan should spend on defence and what mix of foreign weapons and home-grown&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3345756\/taiwan-starts-review-defence-bill-competing-proposals-expose-divisions?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 legislature has agreed to begin reviewing a long-stalled special defence budget, but competing opposition proposals are set to complicate passage of the government\u2019s&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\/147435"}],"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=147435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}