U.S. barred Taiwan from buying parts for local missiles: Ex-military research chief

The former head of the Taiwan military's top research unit has disclosed in a recently published memoir that the United States had prevented Taiwan from obtaining some key components for domestic long-range missiles so that Taiwan would be forced to buy U.S.-made ones only.

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