Thanks to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), American soldiers can continue front-line training programs in Taiwan, according to the Times of India. Newsweek. In order to annex Taiwan, China has significantly increased the number of military deployments and exercises in and around the Taiwan Strait. This prompted its neighbor to pay more attention to defense investments.
On March 14, Taiwanese Chief of Defense Staff Chiu Kuo-chun told reporters about the news of the permanent residence of US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets, in Taiwan:
We need to communicate with our allies. (…) We can learn from each other to realize our strengths. It's a constant thing.
Taiwanese President Tsai Jingwen announced in 2021 that American soldiers would conduct demonstration training for members of the Taiwanese armed forces. There was no talk of it continuing in the long term at that time.
According to Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News (UDN), the US Army Green Berets are currently permanently stationed at two bases of the Taiwanese Army's Special Operations Forces, 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion.
The United States has not maintained a formal military presence in Taiwan since its withdrawal in 1979 after the normalization of US-China relations.
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