Facts First: The US removed its military presence from Taiwan in 1979. According to the Defense Department, as of June 30 there were 30 active members of the US military in Taiwan and 15 civilians who work for the DoD.
Some of the criticisms lobbed at the Biden administration, however, have gotten certain facts wrong. On Twitter, Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, contrasted the number of US troops in places like South Korea, Germany, Japan and Africa to the much smaller number previously in Afghanistan. The Senator argued that"he numbers indicate we had achieved stability with relatively small troop exposure, and a good recent track record without casualties.
"America positioned thousands of troops in Hong Kong and Taiwan, abruptly starting in 1954," the report on global US deployments from 1950 to 2003 says.According to the report, a rapid increase of troops in Taiwan went"from 811 to 4,174 troops in 1954, peaking in 1958 at 19,000 and then stabilizing between 4,000 and 10,000 until 1977.
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