# Lai thanks Washington for a US$360 million drone-and-missile package a month into office Date: 2024 ## The fact On 19 June 2024, at a first-month press conference that also announced the Whole-of-Society Defence Resilience Committee, Lai thanked the United States for a notified US$360 million package including Altius-600M and Switchblade loitering munitions. The Biden administration had signed the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental in April while he was president-elect. He did not write the DSCA case. Asymmetric drones are the path, not a completed interceptor grid. ## Context April supplemental sat as parent US law. Neighbouring Joint Sword-2024A had just printed. He did not sit as INDOPACOM. 20 May oath is the parent start. 26 September Whole-of-Society first meeting is a child of the same day’s announcement. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. [William Lai](/people/lai-ching-te) is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te. ## Evidence and sources Office of the President ROC (Taiwan) carries the official instrument or communique. UPI records the same dated act independently. ## Significance ## What is established and what is not Established: 19 June 2024 thanks and US$360 million notification, independently reported. Not established: that every drone uniquely arrived that Wednesday, or a unique later PLA-casualty coefficient. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He thanked. MND will field. The April supplemental is parent US law.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Lai thanks Washington for a US$360 million drone-and-missile package a month into office, not a later speech about Lai thanks Washington for a US$360 million drone-and-missile package a month into office. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Lai thanks Washington for a US$360 million drone-and-missile package a month into office on 2024-06-19 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the President ROC (Taiwan) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Lai thanks Washington for a US$360 million drone-and-missile package a month into office into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Washington notified. He thanked. MND will field. The April supplemental is parent US law. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te ## Drivers - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism ## Sources - https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/06/19/world-US-Taiwan-360M-Arms-deal/4671718836833/ - https://english.president.gov.tw/Page/669 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-us-drones-2024