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If the People’s Liberation Army sees that the United States has such an attitude, it will in theory take measures to make the United States feel like it is not dealing with soft tofu but a piece of iron,
said Huang Kwei-bo, professor of diplomacy at National Chengchi University in Taipei, referring to the Chinese military Trump has never said what the U.S. would do if China sent troops. This Department of Defense memo makes it very clear. It puts Taiwan’s importance in the highest position and clearly says what should be done,
Shih said, referring to the memo’s call to increase submarines, bombers, unmanned ships and specialty units from the Army and Marine Corps Taiwan has not seen such a clear statement from the United States until now,
said Jun-ji Shih, a former vice premier who was an advisory member of Taiwan’s National Security Council until 2020. I am personally very surprised. This memo makes Taiwan the focus of U.S. global defense strategy as never before,
said William Chung, who studies U.S., China and Taiwan relations at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a Taiwanese military-backed think tank China is the Department’s sole pacing threat, and denial of a Chinese fait accompli seizure of Taiwan — while simultaneously defending the U.S. homeland is the Department’s sole pacing scenario,
Hegseth wrote in the document What we were afraid of is that the Trump administration will ignore Taiwan just like Ukraine and make a deal with China. From the look of things now, that’s not going to happen,
Deterrence is necessary around the world, but specifically in this region, in your country — considering the threats from the communist Chinese,
Our job now at this moment, here with our allies, is to say: We are re-establishing deterrence. Peace through strength, with America in the lead, is back,
the Pentagon chief told reporters We will accelerate our efforts to improve inter-operability and conduct effective bilaterally joint activities across the spectrum from peacetime to contingency,
We have a great relationship with Japan. But we have an interesting deal with Japan that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us,
Expansion of the Japan-US presence in (Japan's) southwestern region is one of our alliance's top priorities,
President Trump has made it very clear, and we reiterate, we are going to put America first. But America first does not mean America alone,
I also explained Japan has continuously been working on a drastic strengthening of our defence capability... on which we received understanding from the US side,
America is committed to sustaining robust, ready and credible deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait,
We share a warrior ethos that defines our forces,
Hegseth told Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani at a meeting in Tokyo Japan is our indispensable partner in deterring communist Chinese military aggression,
Today's meetings have affirmed the extraordinary strength of America's alliance with Japan. After today's discussion, it is clear to me that our alliance is the cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo Pacific negotiation,
That's why today Minister Nakatani and I talked about the severe and urgent security environment around Japan, and we discussed what we are going to do about it,
Japan would be on the frontlines of any contingency we might face in the western Pacific and we stand together in support of each other,
he told reporters after talks with Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani We're confident that Japan will make the correct determination of what capabilities are needed inside our alliance to make sure we are standing shoulder to shoulder,
