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Friday, October 29, 2021

Taiwan's president confirms US military trainers on island

by Elizabeth Faddis, Breaking News Reporter  October 27, 2021 

Tsai Ing-wen is the first Taiwanese president in history to publicly admit the presence of U.S. military troops on the island for training purposes in the face of rising Chinese aggression.  She would not, however, divulge how many U.S. personnel are in Taiwan in a CNN interview published on Tuesday. She did concede the number is "not as many as people thought." 

 She also said, "We have a wide range of cooperation with the U.S. aiming at increasing our defense capability."  Taiwan, known as the Republic of China, is an independent democratic island nation off the coast of mainland China. It receives U.S. defense support but has not been formally recognized by the U.S. government since diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the communist government on the mainland, were normalized............To Read More......

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