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THE AEGEAN REGISTER / AIG-GOV-26-006AIG-GOV-26-006 · PUBLIC RELEASE · 2026
ReportAIG-GOV-26-006Political Risk & GovernanceCreated 2026-09-11Updated 2026-09-11Standard: AEGEAN-OS v1.3
POLITICAL RISK & GOVERNANCE · PUBLISHABLE MARKET RESEARCH · CURRENT

Three Percent on Paper

Will the Legislative Yuan fund Lai's NT$1 trillion defence line before the November locals?

Taiwan's headline defence ratio, legislative calendar, and cross-strait activity point to three different clocks, none of which should be collapsed into one signal.

THE DOCUMENT
NumberAIG-GOV-26-006
FormerlyPMR-2026-0911-TWN-001
Issued2026-09-11
Pages22
DistributionPublic release
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Aegean Intelligence Group, “Three Percent on Paper,” AIG-GOV-26-006, The Aegean Register, 11 September 2026.

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FORWARD CLAIMS · DATED TO PUBLICATION · SCORED ON THE SCORECARD →
IDStatementpMade onResolves byStatusOutcome
CLM-2026-266The Republic of China Ministry of National Defense reports at least 30 sorties of PLA aircraft entering Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone on a single reporting day between 1 and 10 October 2026 inclusive.0.122026-09-112026-10-11Locked
CLM-2026-267The Legislative Yuan passes the 2027 central government general budget with the defence aggregate at or above NT$1.0 trillion on or before 31 December 2026.0.152026-09-112027-01-31Locked

A claim is entered in the brief's own words and carries its publication date and the day it entered the ledger: the register's briefs on 8 September 2026, when the standard was first applied; the forward benchmark on the day it was locked. It resolves only against a dated public source. The scoring rule is on the Methodology page.

THE CENTRAL JUDGMENT
KEY JUDGMENTS
Bottom line

Taiwan's headline defence ratio, legislative calendar, and cross-strait activity point to three different clocks, none of which should be collapsed into one signal.

01The published three-percent comparison uses changing denominators and overstates comparability.ASSESSMENT
02A year-end third reading is possible but not the base case.ASSESSMENT
03The October national-day window merits monitoring, but the summer air series argues against treating the calendar as the event.ASSESSMENT
SOURCES AND LIMITS

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