{"id":147644,"date":"2026-03-11T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147644"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:00:13","slug":"taiwan-scrambles-to-sign-us-arms-deals-before-deadline-amid-defence-budget-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147644","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan scrambles to sign US arms deals before deadline amid defence budget gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has received a US letter of offer and acceptance (LOA) for 82 Himars rocket launchers, according to officials, who said the deal must be signed by March 26 as other pending arms contracts near expiry.<br \/>\nSpeaking before a legislative session on Tuesday, Wellington Koo Li-hsiung, the island\u2019s defence minister, said the Himars, or High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, agreement was one of five US arms procurement deals awaiting legislative authorisation.<br \/>\nKoo noted that the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3346131\/taiwan-scrambles-sign-us-arms-deals-deadline-amid-defence-budget-gridlock?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 defence ministry has received a US letter of offer and acceptance (LOA) for 82 Himars rocket launchers, according to officials, who said the&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\/147644"}],"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=147644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}