KMT legislator Chen Yu Zhen says that the KMT legislative caucus wants to use
money that they cut from the national defense budget to give out to citizens
in the form of the proposed 10,000NT cash handout.

DPP spokesman Wu Zheng said that the 150 billion NT that the KMT caucus cut
for defense spending would have gone towards improving national military
infrastructure, renovating storage facilities, in addition to sea security
monitoring systems in order to detect intrustions at sea.

Wu emphasized that these upgrades are of great importance as the PLA
continues to send ships into waters controlled by Taiwan.

Spokesman Han Ying also slammed the KMT for spreading misinformation, as
blue-leaning media personality Zhao Shao Kang insisted that the US tariff to
be placed on Taiwan was 32%...

when it in reality is only 20%.

(AH)