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WSJ: U.S. Military Secretly Training Taiwanese Forces for Possible Conflict with China

HeadlineOct 08, 2021

The Wall Street Journal has revealed a small team of U.S. special operations forces and marines have been secretly operating in Taiwan for at least a year to help train Taiwanese military forces for a possible conflict with China. This comes as the CIA has set up a new mission center focused solely on China. On Thursday, CIA Director William Burns described China as “the most important geopolitical threat” facing the United States.

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