Hsiao Bi-khim (Hsiao, Vice President of Taiwan)

They're to the north around Japan.

There have also been air incursions into Japanese airspace.

There have been maritime incursions.

This is a challenge that many of us face, how to ensure the freedom of navigation, because that is foundational to global trade.

It's foundational to keeping global prosperity and supply chains flowing.

Yes.

Well, a few years ago when I was posted to represent Taiwan in Washington, D.C., I had some opportunities to engage with the U.S.

defense tech community.

And in fact, I've been involved in conversations on bridging the hill and the valley.

That is Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill, but I think broadly speaking, the defense community and new tech.

And I think a lot of the

discrepancies or gaps that Americans are trying to bridge are also challenges for us.

That is, historically, our defense establishment has their way of doing things and their way of

that the pace at which acquisitions are made or decisions are made, but that pace doesn't meet the urgent requirements of fortifying our defenses.

For example, we have made requests for some

foreign military sales from the United States, which your government has also approved.

But it is taking forever to deliver those articles of defense and supply chain issues, production issues, regulatory issues.

All of these are challenges that need to be overcome.

And in the meantime, there are some new innovations.

Some of them are commercially based.