Report: U.S. Troops Have Been Secretly Training Taiwan’s Military

A new exclusive report shows that, for “at least a year,” American service members have been deployed in Taiwan to train local forces in case China turns its military threats into action.

According to The Wall Street Journal and U.S. officials it spoke with, “About two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops are conducting training for small units of Taiwan’s ground forces” and “U.S. Marines are working with local maritime forces on small-boat training.”

The covert training becomes more important in light of China’s recent escalation of military sorties penetrating Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) that have increased to record-setting frequency in recent days raising concerns that China may attempt to do to Taiwan what it did to Hong Kong.