{"id":51191,"date":"2024-04-21T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51191"},"modified":"2024-04-21T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:00:12","slug":"us-house-passes-bills-to-bolster-taiwan-threaten-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51191","title":{"rendered":"US House passes bills to bolster Taiwan, threaten TikTok ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Saturday quickly passed two key aid bills to counter China and bolster Taiwan while also threatening a ban on TikTok if it fails to divest from Beijing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voting on major bills on Ukraine and Israel was yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers began voting on the foreign aid and arms bills, totaling some $95 billion, at 1:00 pm (1700 GMT), and embattled Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to rely on Democratic votes for passage.<\/p>\n<p>The bills are the product of months of acrimonious negotiations, pressure from US allies and repeated pleas for assistance from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Spending bills cost the last Republican speaker of the House his job, and funding for Ukraine has been at the heart of the partisan squabbling.<\/p>\n<p>At the request of President Joe Biden, some $8 billion would be used to counter China through investment in submarine infrastructure and boosting competition with Beijing on projects built in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Several billion dollars would be devoted to weapons for Taiwan, the self-ruled island that is claimed by China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Saturday quickly passed two key aid bills to counter China and bolster Taiwan while also threatening a ban on TikTok if it fails to divest from Beijing. Voting on major bills on Ukraine and Israel was yet to come. Lawmakers began voting on the foreign aid and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1234],"class_list":["post-51191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-us-house-passes-bills-to-bolster-taiwan-threaten-tiktok-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}