Taiwan Puts $40 Billion Toward Building a Defense Dome and Buying US Weapons

Taiwan Announces $40 Billion Defence Budget Amid China's Invasion Threats

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build an air defense system with high-level detection and interception capabilities called Taiwan Dome.

Taiwan announces $40 billion budget for weapons purchases as U.S. pressures island to increase defense spending

The budget will be allocated over eight years as part of the island's strategy to deter a China's threats of invasion

Taiwan Puts $40 Billion Toward Building a Defense Dome and Buying US Weapons

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build a Taiwan Dome, an air defense system with high-level detection and interception capabilities, as the U.S. pressures the island to increase its defense spending.

Taiwan plans extra $40 billion defense budget to deter China

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said the spending was aimed at "defending democratic Taiwan," with its military targeting a "high level" of readiness by 2027 to counter China.

Taiwan plans extra $40bn in defence spending to counter China’s ‘intensifying’ threats

President Lai Ching-te declared there was ‘no room for compromise on national security’ in face of escalating harassment and espionageBeijing’s threats to Taiwan are “intensifying” and its preparations to invade are speeding up, Taiwan’s government has said while announcing a $40bn special defence budget and a swathe of measures to counter Chinese attacks.The Taiwan president, Lai Ching-te, said there was “no room for compromise on national secu…

Taiwan's President Lai lashes out against Beijing, pledging $40 billion in additional defense budget

Beijing considers democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and regards its reunification with the mainland "a historical inevitability." Taiwan rejects those claims.