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A Patriotic Air Defense System for Taiwan?
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Taiwanese Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) is in Italy attending a democracy forum. Vice-presidential trips to countries without diplomatic ties
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Taiwan’s government has formally proposed spending an extra 145.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($4.6 billion) on defense in 2027, on top of the NTD
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Foreign Minister Lin Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), visited Palau last week for the annual meeting of the Pacific
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