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

The Secretary of Defense shall seek to establish a partnership between the Defense Innovation Unit of the Department of Defense and appropriate counterparts of Taiwan— (1) to enhance market opportunities for United States-based and Taiwan-based defense technology companies; (2) to bolster Taiwan’s defense industrial base; (3) to harmonize global security posture through emerging technology; (4) to counter the development, by the Chinese Communist Party and adversarial proxy groups aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, of dual-use defense technologies; and (5) in coordination with appropriate counterpart offices of the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan— (A) to enable coordination on defense industrial priorities; (B) to streamline emerging defense technology research and development; (C) to establish, for defense technology startups, more pathways to market; and (D) to 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.