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

South China Morning Post - Oct 5, 2026

A reported plan to station US defence personnel inside Taiwan’s military headquarters would take mutual cooperation 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 a long-term...

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