{"id":37786,"date":"2021-10-08T03:07:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/taiwan-us-military-trainers-china"},"modified":"2021-10-08T03:07:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:07:02","slug":"secret-group-of-us-military-trainers-has-been-in-taiwan-for-at-least-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37786","title":{"rendered":"Secret group of US military trainers has been in Taiwan for at least a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small contingent of US special forces and marines training local forces in latest sign of rising US-China tensions<\/p>\n<p>The US has been secretly maintaining a small contingent of military trainers in Taiwan for at least a year, according to a new report, the latest sign of the rising stakes in US-China rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>About two dozen US special forces soldiers and an unspecified number of marines are now training Taiwanese forces, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-troops-have-been-deployed-in-taiwan-for-at-least-a-year-11633614043\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported on Thursday. The trainers were first sent to Taiwan by the Trump administration but their presence had not been reported until now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/taiwan-us-military-trainers-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small contingent of US special forces and marines training local forces in latest sign of rising US-China tensionsThe US has been secretly maintaining a small contingent of military trainers in Taiwan for at least a year, according to a new report, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions\/37787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}