{"id":152680,"date":"2026-06-09T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152680"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:20:15","slug":"taiwanese-lawmakers-spar-over-12-fold-budget-rise-for-us-joint-defence-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152680","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese lawmakers spar over 12-fold budget rise for US joint defence programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA Taiwan-US defence planning programme has sparked debate in Taiwan\u2019s legislature over whether its strategic value justifies its higher cost after the government proposed raising its budget more than twelvefold next year.<br \/>\nAt the centre of the controversy is a sharp increase in funding for the Joint Force Design (JFD) programme, a bilateral defence planning mechanism used to assess the island\u2019s military requirements, operational concepts and capability gaps.<br \/>\nFindings for the JFD, formally known&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3356516\/taiwanese-lawmakers-spar-over-12-fold-budget-rise-us-joint-defence-programme?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 PostA Taiwan-US defence planning programme has sparked debate in Taiwan\u2019s legislature over whether its strategic value justifies its higher cost after the government proposed&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\/152680"}],"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=152680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}