{"id":152161,"date":"2026-05-29T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152161"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:55:14","slug":"can-direct-commercial-sales-fix-taiwans-us20-billion-weapons-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152161","title":{"rendered":"Can direct commercial sales fix Taiwan\u2019s US$20 billion weapons backlog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS defence industry leaders are pushing for deeper commercial cooperation with Taiwan to strengthen its military capabilities, as the island seeks faster ways to bolster deterrence amid Beijing\u2019s mounting military pressure.<br \/>\nBut they cautioned that such business deals could not replace traditional American arms sales regarded as the backbone of Taiwan\u2019s defence.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the Taiwan-US Defence Industry Forum in Taipei on Thursday, retired US General Charles Flynn and senior American executives&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3355299\/can-direct-commercial-sales-fix-taiwans-us20-billion-weapons-backlog?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 PostUS defence industry leaders are pushing for deeper commercial cooperation with Taiwan to strengthen its military capabilities, as the island seeks faster ways to&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\/152161"}],"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=152161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}