US defence experts to work inside Taiwan military HQ under reported pact

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A reported US plan would place two defense experts inside Taiwan’s military headquarters to advise on defense policy and planning. The arrangement could deepen US-Taiwan military cooperation while provoking Beijing and raising concerns in Taipei about policymaking autonomy and military secrecy.

A reported plan to station US defence personnel inside Taiwan’s military headquarters would take cooperation from external help into the heart of defence planning, potentially angering Beijing while raising questions over Taipei’s policymaking autonomy and military secrecy. According to Taiwanese media reports at the weekend, the Pentagon plans to send one official from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defence for Policy and one expert from the Institute for Defence Analyses (IDA) to work on...