A striking story. US special forces and marines have been in Taiwan for over a year: Marines "working with local maritime forces on small-boat training. The American forces have been operating in Taiwan for at least a year"
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"About two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops are conducting training for small units of Taiwan’s ground forces, the officials said. The U.S. Marines are working with local maritime forces on small-boat training" wsj.com/articles/u-s-t…
Another source. "Small numbers of US special operations forces have been rotating into Taiwan on a temporary basis to carry out training of Taiwanese forces, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity." smh.com.au/world/asia/us-…
FT: "The Pentagon has been sending special operations forces to Taiwan for several years to help the country prepare for a possible Chinese attack... the US was training Taiwanese forces partly in connection with that country’s purchase of arms" ft.com/content/467941…
"One person said the rotations had been occurring for at least a decade, and included US marines, army special forces and navy seals." ft.com/content/467941… Has the training grown over time? That's what is implied by the sentence below. 
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