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Date: 2007-09-13 (Thursday)
"Taiwan's overall investment in defense, approximately 2.6 percent of gross domestic product, is woefully inadequate given the ongoing tensions with mainland China.
Taiwan spends far too little on its own defense, in large part because Taiwanese believe the United States is their ultimate protector. America is now in the unenviable position of having an implicit commitment to defend a fellow democracy that seems largely uninterested in defending itself."
-- Justin Logan and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, in a policy analysis report titled "Taiwan's Defense Budget: How Taipei's Free Riding Risks War"






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