Mike McCaul: “This loophole can easily be abused.”

The language that we passed in our National Defense Authorization Act authorizes this type of cooperation between Taiwan and the United States on the co-production of UAV systems.

I was very optimistic about Taiwan and the United States jointly producing drones.

Those certifications are important with the United States government.

AUKUS, the Taiwan-U.S. drone initiative and support from Japan and the Philippines, which McCaul described as 'very concerned,' would provide the deterrence needed to stop Chinese President Xi Jinping from pursuing what McCaul called 'a…