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Taiwanese lawmakers spar over 12-fold budget rise for US joint defence programme
Taiwanese lawmakers are debating a more than twelvefold budget increase for a Taiwan-US defense planning program, specifically the Joint Force Design (JFD) initiative, over concerns about its strategic value versus cost. The JFD program assesses Taiwan's military requirements, operational concepts, and capability gaps through a bilateral defense planning mechanism.
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