Lai urges quick drone budget approval

FUNDING: The president urged the legislature to pass the allocations as a special budget to ensure Taiwan’s ability to sustain force-building investments would not be affected By Su Meng-chuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Taiwan cannot afford delays in acquiring critical defense capabilities, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday, calling on the legislature to approve the government’s new special budget for drones.The nation cannot stint on defense spending amid the mounting threat from China, he told a news conference following an inspection of the state-run National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCIST) in Taichung.The legislature’s decision to slash NT$470 billion (US$14.56 billion) from the administration’s NT$1.2