WASHINGTON -- Taiwan needs to increase its defense spending to around 10% of gross domestic product, a figure quadruple the 2.45% it currently allocates, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for a key Pentagon post told a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
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Elbridge Colby, the nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy, speaks at his confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 4. (Screenshot from livestream)
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