Former top US official calls for closer military ties with Taiwan

The US and Taiwan must closely coordinate their military response to a potential Chinese attack on Taiwan and develop long term relations among officers of their respective militaries to help defeat such an attack, a former senior US defense official said.

Stephen Bryen, who served as deputy undersecretary of defense under former US president Ronald Reagan, told a seminar at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank that the greatest problem facing US-Taiwan military relations is the lack of communication and coordination between the two sides.

Bryen is also a member of the US-China Security Review Commission, a group set up by the US Congress to advise on US military policy toward Taiwan.

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Our bus, will be up because we are selling arms as that is where the country is growing. Always a down fall for a country.You can not build a society on things you blow up.Bush'a War may put him back into office, and this is why. I have two people in my family that are working for good pay making arms and now you look at your family. These people are not out of work.This will work as long as the tax money holds, but these people can not carry the tax bill in this country. We need the other works also.Russia spent its self dry and we will.