Taiwan Confirms US Troops on Front-Line Islands Near China

Newsweek via MSN ^ | 3.19.2024 | Micah McCartney

[libh8er]

Taiwan has confirmed there are U.S. troops stationed on its islands in the Taiwan Strait on a permanent basis, including an island just over a mile off China's southeast coast.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in 2023 paved the way for their arrival to conduct training programs for troops on Taiwan's front line.

China has vowed to someday annex democratic Taiwan, which it regards as a rogue province, despite the fact that the Chinese Communist Party government in Beijing has never ruled there. China has sharply increased military sorties and drills in and around the 90-mile-wide Taiwan Strait, prompting its neighbor to boost investment in defense.

Asked to confirm reports U.S. Army Green Special Forces, also known as Green Berets, were in Taiwan on a permanent basis, Taiwanese defense chief Chiu Kuo-cheng told reporters on March 14: "No matter the situation, there may be blind spots or shortcomings. So we need to communicate with our allies—whether it is a team, a group or a country."

.. Taiwan's Defense Ministry has refrained from commenting on specific reports, but said all foreign military exchanges follow an annual plan.

U.S. Army Green Berets from the 1st Special Forces Group are now permanently stationed at a pair of bases of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, a Taiwanese army special operations force, according to Taiwan's United Daily News (UDN).

These instructors were sent to the outlying island counties of Penghu and Kinmen. At its closest point, Kinmen is just barely over a mile from Chinese shores.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Lol, Eastern Europe? The poorest country in Europe, Ukraine, and a handful of other strategically meaningless rump states? Who cares? Let them have it.

[Trailerpark Badass]

A monster that is dying on its own vine.

[dragnet2]

If China is our enemy, why does everything we touch, see and purchase from Red China?

Seem like one big con job.

[Zhang Fei]

[So 70 years of “strategic ambiguity” is out the window.]

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Strategic ambiguity came after Carter ripped up the mutual defense treaty in 1979. Until then, any Communist invasion was to be met with an American military response.

[wildcard_redneck]

Way to pull the “domino theory” out again. Them RuZZZZZkis will influence our elections! Them RuZZZZkis will steal our women right out of our noodle arms!

You would think with a name like ‘alter kaker’ you would be a little more concerned with what the Biden Regime is doing to murder Israel. Alter kaker literally, not figuratively, means ‘old shitter’ in Yiddish.

[Zhang Fei]

[So 70 years of “strategic ambiguity” is out the window.

Taiwanese should be prepared to be Ukrainized.

All their elites have US and Japanese passports anyway.]

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Strategic ambiguity was for a China perceived as a non-expansive power. It is now shaping up to be Imperial Japan, but 20x larger in manpower terms. In other words, China is reverting to historical form as an aggressive land-hungry power, after a long period of digesting imperial conquests that doubled its land area from the Ming era in the 1600s.

[PGR88]

Strategic ambiguity came after Carter ripped up the mutual defense treaty in 1979

USA vs. China 1979

USA vs. China 2024

Its a different world. Time to stop with the slogans and employ some Sun Tzu

[devere]

Taiwan is US territory. We got it from Japan after WW2, and have never formally relinquished ownership. https://www.taiwanbasic.com/key/dc/tw_insul6.htm

[devere]

More on this: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/12/31/2003342809

[Zhang Fei]

[USA vs. China 1979

USA vs. China 2024

Its a different world. Time to stop with the slogans and employ some Sun Tzu]

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A basic principle of statecraft is to prevent small problems from becoming big ones. A China in its present configuration is a tiny problem compared to a China that includes all of Asia. Even a rambler like Sun Tzu would have recognized this.

[Peter ODonnell]

China declared ear but nobody would listen.

[StAnDeliver]

"It is ironic" that you are always nowhere to be found in these pro-Taiwan threads. Why is that? LOFL.

[pierrem15]

The object, as it has been for a long time, is to keep the Russians as far away as possible.

Distance is always militarily significant. So is manpower: the Poles and Ukrainians, when adequately armed, add considerably to European forces. And there isn't any reason why Ukraine couldn't do as well as Poland economically if it were at peace and in the EU.

[ifinnegan]

You seem all wee weed up about a threat to your dear chicoms.

[ifinnegan]

Here’s the original report.

https://sofrep.com/news/us-army-special-forces-to-be-deployed-on-taiwanese-island-six-miles-from-mainland-china/

Another from a Taiwan newspaper.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/03/15/2003814944

[Reno89519]

How do you figure? I have consistently said we should cut off China, completely. And I have repeated said we face the issue of commerce with China while potentially in a state of war.

And regarding Taiwan, I do question our involvement in their unresolved civil war. And short of arms, I think our commerce with China is big stick to play in this matter.

But overall, the key point, are Americans ready to give up their cheap Chinese goods? Or will they want them even while our soldiers might be fighting and dying?

[ifinnegan]

“If we abandon our allies and let China and Russia dominate Asia and Europe respectively, our chances of dying in a nuclear war go up not down. “

There are many who post here, parasites, who want China and Russia to dominate. It’s bizarro world.

[ifinnegan]

“ So 70 years of “strategic ambiguity” is out the window.”

Most stupid policy of all time.

I guess you’re a big Kissinger and Clinton acolyte.

[StAnDeliver]

"A basic principle of statecraft is to prevent small problems from becoming big ones. A China in its present configuration is a tiny problem compared to a China that includes all of Asia. Even a rambler like Sun Tzu would have recognized this."

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

"Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near."

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

[ifinnegan]

Your talking points are straight from Beijing.