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In 2022, China announced sanctions against Ted Colbert, the president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security. after the company won a $355 million contract to supply Harpoon missiles to Taiwan.

“And when they got close enough to the seal, they would grab their harpoon and get the seal,” said Johnson, an Inupiaq originally from Nome.

During a test of a Harpoon anti-ship missile, its booster — the rocket engine that launches the missile — was “activated” but not ignited, and then it could not be deactivated, the Danish military said.

Merck spent $680 million for cancer drugmaker Harpoon Therapeutics, Boston Scientific spent $3.7 billion on a device-maker and Johnson & Johnson spent $2 billion for a cancer drugmaker.

Delays in sending Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Taiwan are also increasing the dangers that Taipei will be unable to defend against and repel a future Chinese invasion, and rearming the island’s military after a Chinese attack — as the U.S. did in Ukraine following the Russian invasion — would be significantly more difficult or infeasible.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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