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Why Palmer Luckey Wants Taiwan to Build Weapons, Not Just Buy Them | The Chain Maker Interviews

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Fighter jets and warships took decades to build. Anduril is betting on something different: autonomous systems, software and weapons made for rapid, mass production. Now that model is spreading across the Indo-Pacific. Anduril is now valued at $61 billion. It has opened an engineering and manufacturing office in Japan, secured an $850 million deal for more than 2,000 ALTIUS systems in Taiwan, and is building industrial partnerships in South Korea. So is Anduril simply entering a new market, or building a regional defense technology network? Host: Laurel Stewart Guests: Christopher Clifford (Military Commentator and Former US Military Officer) Kuo Yu-jen (Professor & Director, Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University)