Posted on 10/08/2021 9:30:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that a “special-operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been secretly operating in Taiwan to train military forces there, U.S. officials said, part of efforts to shore up the island’s defenses as concern regarding potential Chinese aggression mounts. About two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops are conducting training for small units of Taiwan’s ground forces.”
For folks like me who distrust the Chinese Communists, and thus pray Beijing doesn’t attempt to conquer Taiwan, this is good news.
This information clearly was leaked, probably to serve as a deterrent, reminding China that a military invasion of the island — which Beijing says could occur within a few years — would run into U.S. military forces.
China has been menacingly flying dozens of military aircraft near Taiwan again this month, resulting in the worst relations between the two nations in four decades.
“The Chinese Communist Party’s aggressive behavior is intended to intimidate Taiwan and send a message to the rest of the free world,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in a statement this week. “If Beijing’s recklessness is not met with international condemnation, Xi Jinping will think he has a green light for further aggression.”
China’s foreign ministry lashed out and reiterated that “Taiwan belongs to China and the U.S. is in no position to make irresponsible remarks.”
“The relevant remarks by the U.S. side seriously violate the one-China principle…the political foundation of China-US relations,” they added, redundantly but likely purposely. “On the Taiwan question, the U.S. should abide by the one-China principle and the stipulations of the China-U.S. joint communiqués rather than something cooked up by itself unilaterally.”
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Hope they do a better job than training the Afghan forces.
Although it was not possible to keep Chinese intelligence from knowing this, that fact should not have kept the U.S. from putting a “top secret” stamp on the efforts. If the Biden administration thinks publicizing the effort intimidates the CCP I am sure they are wrong.
I personally support Taiwan immensely and wish that they can remain independent, forevermore. However, regardless of that, my curiosity is wandering if Biden-Blinken is trying to provoke a war with China, to (a) try to change U.S. public perception of Biden as a “leader” and (b) use war as an excuse for the domestic political agendas they have, much as FDR did.
The best defense is a good offense.
No worries. The white house promises their full support.
Taiwan makes the good stuff.
China makes the ‘DemocRAT-quality’ (read - cr*p) stuff.
Oh, would that we could ship all the leftists to their god country - China.
Apples and Oranges. Afghanis never really wanted a free nation. They just didn't want the taliban and were happy tribal wars had a pause. Taiwan is a proud successful nation that has lived in peace for many years. Taiwan and its people are clearly liberty loving people and deserve USA protection. They treated us Swabbies with the upmost courtesy, gratitude, and respect the times I was there.
That's the problem with political civilian leadership of our Armed Forces. They don't seem to know the right people or nation to defend nor how to succeed in such defense.
Nowadays it appears our Admirals and Generals don't know either.
Really? like the Taliban. Wow, they really stood their ground.
Better late than never?
No I think it’s too late.
A YEAR AGO!!! What date was that???
It actually makes sense in a backhanded kind of way. They’re not really a deterrent in terms of their force size, but really a tripwire, showing we have skin in the game. And if we were careful to try to use only Asian specops guys, they would be a thorn in the Chinese side in terms of after invasion asymmetric warfare.
Biden and Milley sent the crack trainers of the Afghan army: “This is how you drop your gun and beg for mercy.”
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