Amid ‘volatile’ landscape, Taiwan to boost defense spending to 3% of GDP

Published on August 5, 2025

Taiwanese leader Lai says Taipei ‘committed to maintaining status quo and ensuring peace and stability’ across Taiwan Strait

 

Taipei's defense spending will exceed 3% of its $815 billion GDP to boost the island’s self-defense capabilities, Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te said Tuesday.

The increase in defense spending comes as Lai noted that the international landscape “has become more and more volatile.”

He was addressing the 9th edition of the Ketagalan Forum, focused on security dialogue in the wider Asia-Pacific region.

“The Russia-Ukraine War is still ongoing, and conflict in the Middle East has only intensified. … China’s military activities in the Taiwan Strait and East and South China Seas pose unprecedented challenges to the rules-based international order,” Lai told the forum, according to a transcript of his speech.

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