Taiwan-U.S. defense industry meeting to be held

Now in its eighth year, the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference will bring together senior officials and academics in the field from the two countries to discuss strategic security issues of mutual concern, organizers said.

The U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, which groups American companies with interests in Taiwan, has been organizing the event annually since 2002 when then-Defense Minister Tang Yiau-min represented Taiwan at the first meeting in St.Petersburg, Florida.

Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference, said Monday the agenda for this year's meeting will focus on U.S.-Taiwan defense cooperation and Taiwan's future defense and security needs.

The conference will discuss Taiwan's military transformation and strategic changes, military modernization, integration and defense innovation, Hammond Chambers said.

Wallace “Chip” Gregson, U.S. assistant secretary of defense in charge of Asia-Pacific security affairs; David Shear, deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of East Asian and Pacific affairs; and Chao Shih-chang, Taiwan's deputy defense minister, will deliver keynote speeches at the conference.

Paul Wolfowitz, a former U.S. deputy defense secretary who is now chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, will moderate at the upcoming conference.

Scholars, experts and defense industry representatives from both countries will also attend the meeting.

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