They’re functioning as tripwires for curtailing China’s freedom of military action in any forthcoming cross-strait crisis and directly involving the US if that fails. The Taiwanese “Defense Minister” confirmed on Thursday in response to media reports that US Army Special Forces are training his polity’s troops on the island of Kinmen just six miles from Mainland China. It was already provocative enough that former “President” Tsai Ing-wen
To understand just how dangerous and foolish this is, imagine what the US would do if China based special forces soldiers on an island in the Bahamas.
It seems we have at minimum 3 different factions making decisions at the highest levels in the U.S. As a result, literal schizy conduct.