TPP’s Huang accused of confidentiality rule breachBy Huang Ching-hsuan and Jason Pan / Staff reportersDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday condemned Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Legislator Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), saying he breached the rules by leaving a legislative committee meeting with classified materials on the military budget. The Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee held a confidential meeting yesterday morning, during which Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) reported on the NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.57 billion) special defense budget. “It was fortunate that we realized what was happening and were able to get Huang to return the documents,” DPP Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋) said. Huang said that after leaving the meeting, he realized he had accidentally mixed in confidential materials with other documents. Huang has been a legislator for some years, so his claim that he had accidentally taken classified materials out of a secret meeting is hard to believe, she said.

Source: Taipei Times January 19, 2026 17:13 UTC