USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers asks why President Trump has initiated an ongoing Taiwan arms sale freeze, delaying Taiwan’s force modernization.
In a Taipei Times Editorial, USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers says that President Donald Trump’s second-term administration has now initiated the fourth Taiwan arms-sale freeze since 2005.
USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers editorial in the Taipei Times: President Lai Faces Trump’s Taiwan Test
April 6, 2026 USTBC President Rupert Hammond-Chambers editorial in the Taipei Times: Taiwan needs energy strategy shift
As the Biden Administration directs Taiwan to procure weapons to deal with only a single contingency — a D-Day style attack on the island — the U.S. government must accompany this direction with strategic clarity over the role the U.S. military will play in filling the gaps American policy will now create.