A source told The Economist in 2018 that around 3,500-4,000 Pentagon officials travelled to Taiwan every year
ON APRIL 26TH 1979 the United States Taiwan Defence Command lowered its flag for the last time, after 25 years on the island. A week later the last American soldier departed, leaving Taiwan, it seemed, to fend for itself against the People’s Republic of China. The command’s headquarters is now the site of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. But on October 7th the Wall Street Journal reported that American special forces and marines had been on the island for over a year, training Taiwanese forces.
Since then, America has not had a large military presence on the island. But it has not been absent, either. When the American Institute in Taiwan, a de facto embassy, opened its new site in 2019, a spokeswoman acknowledged that marines—which guard embassies worldwide—and active duty personnel from the army, navy and air force had been “detailed” to the mission for the previous 14 years.
Nor is it a revelation that some of these visitors hone Taiwan’s military skills. America sells Taiwan—a $750m package was approved in August, on top of $5bn last year—and these typically require training to maintain and operate.
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