US should consider sending troops to Taiwan again: Marine Corps officer

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The United States, which last had military forces in Taiwan more than 40 years ago, should consider sending troops into the country again, as a new proposal deems this necessary to deter the Chinese military from attacking Taiwan. Taiwan USmilitary USC

and could provoke the attack on Taiwan that we seek to avoid,” the report quotes Ms Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank.

Capt Mills wrote: “The US needs to recognize that its conventional deterrence against PLA action to reunify Taiwan may not continue to hold without a change in force posture. And if China succeeds in controlling Taiwan, this would be a strategic loss for the US, as it would give the Chinese navy an important access point into the Pacific Ocean, as well as be a blow to endeavours from the US to contain the Chinese navy’s expansion, which it has done so successfully with allied countries in the region.

But the report says other experts believe that the PLA is not yet capable of engaging in an amphibious invasion of Taiwan.

 

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