# National Day address names T-Dome and a path from 3 percent to 5 percent of GDP by 2030 Date: 2025 ## The fact On 10 October 2025 Lai’s National Day address ‘A New Taiwan Rises in a Time of Change’ said a special defence budget would be proposed by year-end, that defence spending on a NATO definition would exceed 3 percent of GDP the next year and reach 5 percent by 2030, and that Taiwan would accelerate T-Dome — a multi-layered air-defence net of sensors and interceptors. A later US$40 billion article is a child dollar figure. An address is not a completed interceptor. ## Context US and NATO 5 percent weather sat as parent. Neighbouring Maanshan shutdown is a different energy file. He did not sit as Raytheon. The LY still had to appropriate. 25 November 2025 US$40 billion article is a child. 11 February 2026 Special Act press conference is a later child. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te. ## Evidence and sources Office of the President ROC (Taiwan) carries the official instrument or communique. Focus Taiwan (CNA) records the same dated act independently. ## Significance ## What is established and what is not Established: 10 October 2025 T-Dome and 3-then-5 percent path, independently reported from the official text. Not established: that every interceptor uniquely sat on a pad that Friday, or a unique later PLA-casualty coefficient. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. MND and NSC design. The LY appropriates. US vendors share later cases.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National Day address names T-Dome and a path from 3 percent to 5 percent of GDP by 2030, not a later speech about National Day address names T-Dome and a path from 3 percent to 5 percent of GDP by 2030. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. National Day address names T-Dome and a path from 3 percent to 5 percent of GDP by 2030 on 2025-10-10 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the President ROC (Taiwan) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average National Day address names T-Dome and a path from 3 percent to 5 percent of GDP by 2030 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He named the path. MND and NSC design. The LY appropriates. US vendors share later cases. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te ## Drivers - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism ## Sources - https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202510100004 - https://english.president.gov.tw/News/7022 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-tdome-2025