{"id":1039226,"date":"2026-09-29T06:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039226"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:35:21","slug":"taiwan-must-deepen-drone-cooperation-with-democratic-partners-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/taiwan-must-deepen-drone-cooperation-with-democratic-partners-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan must deepen drone cooperation with democratic partners, president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan must deepen cooperation with its democratic partners on developing drones which are crucial to fighting modern warfare, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s government has made defence modernisation and increased spending a core policy given stepped-up military pressure from China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking in southern Taiwan&#8217;s Chiayi for the groundbreaking ceremony for a new drone development centre, Lai said the site&#8217;s significance has become even more prominent with changes in the international situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan must deepen cooperation with its democratic partners on developing drones which are crucial to fighting modern warfare, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday. Taiwan&#8217;s government has made defence modernisation and increased spending a core policy given stepped-up military pressure from China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory. Speaking in southern Taiwan&#8217;s Chiayi for the groundbreaking ceremony for a new drone development centre, Lai said the site&#8217;s significance has become even more prominent with changes in the international situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039250,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039226\/revisions\/1039250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}