Defense tech company head calls for turning Taiwan into a 'prickly porcupine that nobody wants to step on'

A U.S. defense tech company executive who has been personally sanctioned by China over his company's arm sales to Taiwan says he wears the ban as a badge of honor.

"It’s an award I’m very, very proud to win," Anduril founder Palmer Luckey told FOX Business anchor Liz Claman from CES 2026 in Las Vegas Wednesday.

Just one week after Washington announced an arms-sale package valued at more than $10 billion to Taiwan, Beijing imposed sanctions on 20 U.S. defense companies and 10 senior executives, including Luckey.