Strategic partnership on defense industrial priorities between the United States and Taiwan

The Secretary of Defense shall seek to establish a partnership between the Department of Defense and appropriate counterparts of Taiwan in order to— (1) enhance market opportunities for United States-based and Taiwan-based defense technology companies; (2) bolster Taiwan’s defense industrial base; (3) harmonize global security posture through emerging technology; (4) counter the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Communist Party-aligned adversarial proxy group development of dual-use defense technologies; and (5) in coordination with appropriate counterpart offices of the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense— (A) enable coordination on defense industrial priorities; (B) streamline emerging defense technology research and development; (C) create more pathways to market for defense technology startups; and (D) collaborate on the coordinated development of dual-use defense capabilities, such as the following: (i) Drones. (ii) Microchips. (iii) Directed energy weapons. (iv) Artificial Intelligence. (v) Missile technology. (vi) Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology.