{"id":154452,"date":"2026-07-12T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154452"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:00:11","slug":"taiwan-military-gains-5000-volunteers-but-real-problem-is-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154452","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan military gains 5,000 volunteers, but \u2018real problem\u2019 is retention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s volunteer force has recorded an unexpected increase of more than 5,000 personnel over the past year despite the island\u2019s worsening demographic decline.<br \/>\nHowever, lawmakers and military analysts say the growth is driven more by government pay rises than by any apparent shift in young people\u2019s attitudes towards military service.<br \/>\nThe figures, released by the defence ministry this week, brought rare good news to an armed force grappling with chronic manpower shortages.<br \/>\nBut critics warned&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3360122\/taiwan-military-gains-5000-volunteers-real-problem-retention?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 volunteer force has recorded an unexpected increase of more than 5,000 personnel over the past year despite the island\u2019s worsening demographic decline. However,&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\/154452"}],"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=154452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}