{"id":2215,"date":"2024-09-12T22:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:51:20","slug":"elite-us-seals-training-against-china-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/elite-us-seals-training-against-china-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite US SEALs training against China \u2013 FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Six has reportedly been focusing on \u201ca Taiwan conflict\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Navy’s elite special operations unit, SEAL Team Six, has been training to “help Taiwan”<\/em> in case of a “Chinese invasion,”<\/em> according to the Financial Times (FT). The unit carried out the 2011 mission that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

SEAL Team Six “has been planning and training for a Taiwan conflict for more than a year at Dam Neck, its headquarters at Virginia Beach about 250km south-east of Washington,”<\/em> the FT reported<\/a> on Thursday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The US has sent special forces to Taiwan in the past several years to train the island’s military against a potential attack from the mainland. No details were given about the SEAL activity, which is “highly classified.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The US Special Operations Command referred any questions about  Taiwan plans to the Pentagon, which did not comment on specific details.<\/p>\n

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Beijing demands Washington stop \u2018military collusion\u2019 with Taiwan<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So far, the only hints of US plans for a potential conflict around Taiwan have come from Admiral Samuel Paparo, the head of the Indo-Pacific Command, in an interview in June.<\/p>\n

“I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities so I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything,” <\/em>Paparo told the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Taiwan has been run by descendants of Chinese nationalists since they fled the mainland in 1949, following a communist victory in the civil war. Washington did not recognize the People’s Republic of China until 1979, treating the government in Taipei as the ‘Republic of China’ in the meantime.<\/p>\n

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Taiwan\u2019s top security officials visit US for secret talks \u2013 FT<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Though it has officially adopted the One-China policy, the US maintains informal diplomatic and economic ties with Taipei, which is a major source of semiconductors and chips for Western markets. Washington has also supplied Taipei with weapons, ammunition, and equipment to “deter”<\/em> Beijing. <\/p>\n

Taiwan is “the very core of China’s core interests and the first red line that must not be crossed in the China-US relationship,”<\/em> the Chinese Embassy in Washington has said, urging the US to “stop creating factors that could heighten tensions in the Taiwan Strait.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The US government claims that Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the People’s Liberation Army to modernize to achieve the capability of forcibly seizing the island by 2027.<\/p>\n

Beijing’s official Taiwan policy is peaceful reintegration, though China has not ruled out using force in the event of the island declaring independence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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