China In Context
China In Context
SOAS China Institute
Taiwan's Controversial Budget Cuts — The KMT goes DOGE?
31 minutes Posted Apr 10, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
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Taiwan is facing a range of challenges — from Donald Trump's threat of 32% tariffs on its crucial exports to the US, to massive Chinese military exercises off its coastline aimed at intimidating the island's leaders. If that weren't enough, the DPP administration, led by President William Lai, has seen its budget slashed by Taiwan’s legislature, which is now dominated by its main rival, the KMT, or Chinese Nationalist Party. It's resulted in months of protests and political wrangling. So how ...