Taiwan’s Opposition Seeks to Slash Arms Budget Demanded by Trump
Soldiers with the Taiwanese flag during a military exercise at a military facility in the Xinshe district in Taichung, Taiwan, on Jan. 27.
Photographer: An Rong Xu/BloombergTaiwan’s opposition parties have advanced a bill that would slash a special military budget, potentially jeopardizing the purchases of billions of dollars of US weapons aimed at deterring the threat of invasion by China.
The Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party voted on Friday to push forward their version of a special budget bill, which covers only part of the weapons systems recently approved by the US for sale to Taiwan, representing significant cuts from President Lai Ching-te’s rival proposal.