{"id":148824,"date":"2026-03-30T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148824"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:39:24","slug":"us-senators-visit-taiwan-to-push-defence-spending-as-arms-deadlines-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148824","title":{"rendered":"US senators visit Taiwan to push defence spending as arms deadlines loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFour senior US senators are on a two-day visit to Taiwan to press for legislative approval of a NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget proposed by the island\u2019s government but stalled by the opposition as military pressure from Beijing intensifies.<br \/>\nThe visit \u2013 seen as signalling growing frustration in Washington over the delays \u2013 comes as Taipei faces looming payment deadlines for several US-approved arms packages, with funding still unresolved due to the legislative&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3348433\/us-senators-visit-taiwan-push-defence-spending-arms-deadlines-loom?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 PostFour senior US senators are on a two-day visit to Taiwan to press for legislative approval of a NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence&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\/148824"}],"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=148824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}