- Taiwan will purchase roughly 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles — crafted by aircraft industry leader Boeing — as a measure of protecting its coastal zones against a potential invasion from China.
- Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US-Taiwan Business Council, told Bloomberg that the contract with Boeing on Taiwan’s behalf by the US Naval Air Systems Command marks the first time the island will have purchased land-launched versions of the missile.
- Taiwan has previously bought ship-launched Harpoon missiles from Boeing.