Taiwan's President Confirms Dozens Of U.S. Troops Are On the Island Training The Military

 

Daily Mail: Taiwan's president becomes first to confirm dozens of US troops ARE on the island and training the military as she warns threat from China is increasing every day 

* Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said she has 'faith' that the United States will defend the island in the event China launches a military strike 

* During an interview broadcast on CNN the president also revealed that American troops are on Taiwanese soil training Taiwan's military 

* There are 32 members of the US military currently in Taiwan 

* She said she hopes that China and Taiwan can 'co-exist peacefully' despite the current knife-edge atmosphere 

 * Remarks come as tensions soar in East Asia, where incursions by Chinese warplanes into Taiwan's air defense zone have spiked in recent weeks 

* Self-governed Taiwan's 23 million people live under constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China 

* China views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force 

* Despite the persistent threats and aggression from Beijing, Tsai said she is willingly to meet with China's President Xi in order to 'reduce misunderstanding' 

* President Biden told a televised forum last week that Washington was ready to defend Taiwan from any Chinese invasion 

* Remarks were swiftly walked back by the White House, which wants to maintain a strategy of ambiguity on whether it would intervene militarily if China attacked 

Taiwan's president has confirmed for the first time that American troops are on the island of Taiwan training the Taiwanese military - just days after President Joe Biden publicly confirmed he would defend the nation from China should it come under attack. 

President Tsai Ing-wen explained how US soldiers were stationed on the self-governing island, explaining that Taiwan had a 'wide range of cooperation with the US aiming at increasing our defense capability'. 

The training mission which consists of a special-operations unit and contingent of Marines is believed to have been in operation for at least a year.  

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WNU Editor: China has responded .... Tsai confirms US military presence in Taiwan, ‘to face consequences for breaking red line’ (Global Times). 

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