U.S. Troops Train Taiwan Forces Amid Worries Over China

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON—A U.S. 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, the officials said. The U.S. Marines are working with local maritime forces on small-boat training. The American forces have been operating in Taiwan for at least a year, the officials said.

The U.S. special-operations deployment is a sign of concern within the Pentagon over Taiwan’s tactical capabilities in light of Beijing’s yearslong military buildup and recent threatening moves against the island.

Taiwan and U.S. officials have expressed alarm over nearly 150 flights near Taiwan in the past week by Chinese military aircraft. The Chinese aircraft have included J-16 jet fighters, H-6 strategic bombers and Y-8 submarine-spotting aircraft and have set a record for such sorties, according to the Taiwan government.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-troops-train-taiwan-forces-amid-worries-over-china/ar-AAPeMtI

[Deuxcents]

1. O, no..

We should not get involved with this. Why are we so into being militaristic?

[FirefighterJo]

3. Because

China Will not back down, their history is a tell all

[Iggo]

28. Their history of NOT attacking Taiwan goes way back.

[FirefighterJo]

2. Not

That i think this is any good news but whoora. It is way beyond time to show China that their Han politics Will not work on the free world.

[FirefighterJo]

7. Yes

I am a family of five now. My two Kids and two sisters. On the bright side... we have some groovy street names now... i Come from a long standing family of frontliners, called ´the hogs´. I already did my time in the regiment, but Will respond without any hesitation to a call to arms, as much as i hate violence.

[FirefighterJo]

15. Fist

Bump and all is forgiven i used whoora because it is in my idea the most powerfull cry between military. Sure beats the ´snore´ of my hogs: d

[FirefighterJo]

22. I

Competely follow your thinking but this time it Will be out of the hands of the Allies, again... this Will not be not a war induced by some hawks like iraq or Afghanistan, but a war from some countries Who believe they are better and must reform everybody to their ideas. Well, look on the bright side...Europa never had a 70 year peace. The next Hitler is there, only this time, pronouncing his name Will be difficult, mandarin speech and so

[marble falls]

26. Great way to end one's carreer on DU, too!

[FirefighterJo]

9. Read

About the Han philosophy. It is inevitable

[FirefighterJo]

14. Disagreement

Between gentle People leads to great ideas, so thank you.
The Han philosophy that the chinese communist party has used for decades has worked well in their own country. For years now,they are trying to expand it to the world, is my feeling

[FirefighterJo]

19. I think

It Will get bad, very bad. The us forces Will be sucked in to the asian war, Europa Will be on it´s own to fend of the russian attack, so yes, we Will be called. If you follow-up the news which of course you did, you know that a. China is in cahoots with russia and b. For three years now, two russian armies are playing war games at the northern border. And please, forget the imbecile remark, but american families are not the only families that suffered loss.i apologize

[marble falls]

27. Explain that "Han" philosophy bit.

[Demsrule86]

31. Yes, explain what the HAN philosophy is and why...it somehow make war inevitable.

[radicalleft]

8. Isn't this the way our involement

in Viet Nam started?

[roamer65]

18. Let the Taiwanese develop tactical fission bombs.

They would be enough to repel any mainland invasion forces, but the mainland will NOT attack if there is a chance it will go nuclear.

The Taiwanese could develop them quickly and easily.

Same philosophy we used against overwhelming Warsaw Pact forces in Europe for 40 plus years.

[former9thward]

29. You seem to feel China fears nuclear weapons or war.

They don't.

Xi follows the philosophy of Mao. As early as 1957 Mao was willing to lose 300 million in a nuclear war. (China's population was probably 400-500 million at the time)

TOKYO, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung maintains that Communist China has nothing to fear from nuclear weapons. But his people have paid a fearful price to develop the atomic bomb of their own. Mao is said to have told a Yugoslav visitor to Peking in 1957, "We have a very large territory and a big population. Atomic bombs could not kill all of us."

"What if they killed 300 million of us? We would still have many people left."

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1964/10/17/Maos-theory-on-atomic-bomb-They-cant-kill-us-all/1653831424805/

[roamer65]

30. That would be a BIG mistake on their part.

If we were to have even a medium sized nuclear war, not only will the radioactivity from the weapons contaminate the Earth…the spent fuel fires at disabled nuclear plants worldwide will seal the deal for humanity.

Fukushima Dai’ichi gave us a glimpse into a possible post-nuclear war scenario.

[BlueWavePsych]

20. Could Taiwan Hold off A Chinese Invasion

[roamer65]

21. If they have tactical nuclear weapons, yes.

The mainland will then come to a negotiating table.

[BlueWavePsych]

23. Scenario above assumes inflicting so much casualties

PRoC will sue for peace when QUAD comes to support Taiwan after the initial attack. Seems feasible.

[joetheman]

25. Have we learned nothing?? Because training Afghan forces went so well, right? nt