{"id":1461,"date":"2026-09-19T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/defence-firm-anduril-says-us-delay-on-taiwan-arms-sales-affecting-its-business\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:01:55","slug":"defence-firm-anduril-says-us-delay-on-taiwan-arms-sales-affecting-its-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/defence-firm-anduril-says-us-delay-on-taiwan-arms-sales-affecting-its-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence firm Anduril says US delay on Taiwan arms sales affecting its business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Ben Blanchard <\/p>\n

TAIPEI, Sept 19 (Reuters) – US defence tech firm Anduril’s founder Palmer Luckey said on Saturday that President Donald Trump’s delay in approving arms sales to Taiwan is affecting its business and that he \u200chas discussed this with Trump. <\/p>\n

The $14 billion package for Taiwan has been awaiting Trump’s approval for months. After a \u200cMay summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he was holding it in abeyance and described it as a “very good negotiating chip”. <\/p>\n

China claims \u200bdemocratically governed Taiwan as its own, an assertion Taipei rejects. The issue of Taiwan is likely to be high on Xi’s agenda when he meets Trump in Washington next week. <\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters in Taipei where he attended a defence forum with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, Luckey said he did not know the status of the arms package. <\/p>\n

“It’s definitely affecting the business in that our business \u200cwith Taiwan would be in a different place \u2060if you had that $14 billion moving forward,” he said, declining to give details about what was being delayed for the company. <\/p>\n

DRONES RESHAPE WARFARE <\/p>\n

Anduril, whose Altius drone is used by Taiwan, has become \u2060one of Silicon Valley’s hottest defence bets as drones reshape warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East and Trump pushes the Pentagon to adopt cutting-edge technologies to counter China. <\/p>\n

Luckey, whom China sanctioned in December for selling weapons to Taiwan, said one of the problems in delaying \u200bthe \u200bpackage was that it had a broader, longer-lasting impact. “It’s that as \u200blong as that’s stuck, you don’t have continued forward \u200cprogress in other areas,” he said. <\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside office hours. <\/p>\n

China has repeatedly told the US to stop selling weapons to Taiwan and has sanctioned numerous US companies that sell arms to the island. The US is bound by law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, though Trump has called that commitment into question. <\/p>\n

Luckey said he had discussed the issue of Taiwan arms sales with Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary \u200cof State Marco Rubio. He said the administration was open to \u200bhearing from people on the issue but aware of the fallout that could \u200bcome from selling more weapons to Taiwan, such as \u200bChina using its leverage with rare earths crucial for tech companies. <\/p>\n

“And so I’ve heard people say, \u200cshouldn’t he just approve the deal and damn the \u200bconsequences? But he’s getting briefed \u200bby other people who are not me, and they’re saying, ‘If you do this, here’s what’s going to happen to American consumers’,” Luckey said. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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“He has to weigh all of those things. He’s in a really difficult, difficult situation,” Luckey \u200badded, referring to Trump. <\/p>\n

Lai, who shook hands \u200cwith Luckey at the forum’s start, has made drones a central part of Taiwan’s military modernisation. <\/p>\n

Last year, Taiwan \u200bunveiled its first missile to be jointly made with a US company, Anduril’s Barracuda-500, an autonomous, low-cost cruise \u200bmissile. <\/p>\n

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard in Taipei; Editing by William Mallard) <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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