A US defense official attending a US-Taiwan defense conference in Virginia encouraged American companies on Monday to transfer technology to Taiwan so that it can assemble its own weapons, according to a participant at the conference.
Abraham Denmark, US deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, was cited as having made the appeal during a speech at the three-day US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference 2015, which opened Sunday in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The participant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Denmark opened his speech by stressing the United States' security commitments to Taiwan but that US promises alone were not enough to guarantee Taiwan's security, and he suggested that Taiwan needed to bear its own share of responsibility.
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