The TPP continues with its delicate balancing act on defense. In particular, the TPP seems to still be aiming to differentiate its political stance from that of the KMT, while still maintaining a pan-Blue political orientation and, in this way, taking an active stance against passing defense spending...
The KMT has finally released its own version of the special defense budget. This proves, in some sense, a reversal of stance for the KMT, which previously sought to block any arms purchases from the US by way of the special defense budget, voting this down ten times. This occurred with the claim that the US was simply trying to foist useless weapons onto Taiwan through arms purchases and that arms purchases would, in fact, provoke China to further hostilities directed at Taiwan...
