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Taiwan will introduce a US$40 billion (NZ$70 billion) supplementary defence budget to underscore its determination to defend itself, with "significant" new US arms purchases planned, President Lai Ching-te said in a Washington Post op-ed essay.
The move comes as China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military and political
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