Jim Wolf quotes the Pentagon's top policy-maker for East Asia saying

China was arming itself to keep the U.S. military at bay in a crunch.Taiwan, he added in a speech on Thursday night, must not consider U.S. support "as a substitute for investing the necessary resources in its own defense."

also, at a privately sponsored U.S.-Taiwan defense industry conference, the State Department's top official on China:

"We urge Taiwan to take the steps needed to acquire defensive weapons and systems sufficient to address the ever-increasing threat posed by the PRC"

Look, if Taiwan doesn't want to buy the weapons and wants to fall in to the arms of the Communists, that's up to them, isn't it? I guess not if the organizers of the closed-door conference,

notably top U.S. military contractors, were "frustrated" by Taiwan's delay in wrapping up billions of dollars of weapons purchases authorized in April 2001 by President Bush.

If this is all true, it shows those leftist ideas about the military-industrial complex are on target.

Update
The reason Taiwan isn't buying the weapons on offer is that it's hoping for something more up-to-date. So the message the US government is sending is that it ain't gonna happen.