{"id":63623,"date":"2024-04-26T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/26\/us-foreign-aid-bill-package-details"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:33:06","slug":"what-does-taiwan-get-from-the-foreign-aid-bill-and-why-is-the-us-economy-among-the-biggest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63623","title":{"rendered":"What does Taiwan get from the foreign aid bill and why is the US economy among the biggest winners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sweeping foreign aid package passed by congress has drawn the ire of China, but billions of dollars will actually stay in the US<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen has praised the US Congress for passing a sweeping foreign aid package this week which included arms support for the island, and has drawn the ire of China.<\/p>\n<p>After months of delays and contentious debate, the bill was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/24\/biden-foreign-aid-bill\">signed into law by Joe Biden on Wednesday<\/a>. Described as $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, the legislation actually contains provisions that broadly affect many parts of the Asia-Pacific, while also spending billions of dollars at home in America.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/26\/us-foreign-aid-bill-package-details\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sweeping foreign aid package passed by congress has drawn the ire of China, but billions of dollars will actually stay in the USTaiwan\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen has praised the US Congress for passing a sweeping foreign aid package this week which i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,234,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-us-congress","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63624,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63623\/revisions\/63624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}