The Global Times accused Senator John Cornyn of 'testing' China with a now-deleted tweet mistakenly saying there were 30,000 U.S. troops stationed in Taiwan.
said this summer that reunification was a"historic mission." Any attempt to make Taiwan independent of China must be"utterly defeated," according to Xi.have been warning about the potential for armed conflict over the region, a message the outlet reiterated on Tuesday.
A June report from the Department of Defense's Defense Manpower Data Center identified 30 active duty military members in Taiwan. That included two people from the Navy, 23 from the Marines and five from the Air Force. That's vastly fewer people than were mentioned in Cornyn's tweet.reached out to Cornyn for clarification as to the source of his troop numbers but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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