Taiwan's opposition says Trump publicly listing Taiwan's representative office in Washington as a foreign funder of a Democratic-leaning think tank is bad news for Taipei's standing with the White House.

• Trump attacked the Center for American Progress and named Taiwan's US office as one of its foreign backers.
• The KMT calls this an unusual diplomatic warning sign and wants the foreign ministry to say how much taxpayer money still goes to CAP.
• The complaint is that Taiwan kept funding a think tank close to Democrats and hostile to Trump after he returned to power.
• The timing is awkward, with a $14 billion US arms package in progress and a possible Lai Ching-te stopover in the United States on the table.

Outlook: Pressure builds on Taiwan's foreign ministry to explain its think tank spending and show the arms sales and transit plans are not at risk.