U.S. Marines will be stationed at the new de facto American embassy in Neihu later this year
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/02/16 18:21
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. Marines will be posted at the new American Institute in
U.S. Marines from Marine Barracks Washington march by Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va. (By Wikimedia Commons)
Taiwan (AIT) complex which is slated to be completed later this year, according to former AIT Director Stephen Young (楊甦棣).
During a speech in U.S. policy seminar at the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington D.C., Young said that the U.S. would be in charge of security at the new compound, which will be based in Taipei’s Neihu District, and that having the Marines stand guard at the facility would be a “symbolic expression of the U.S. commitment to its friends in Taiwan.”
In the past, the United States always sent the Marine Corps to provide security for overseas embassies and consulates, but after severing relations with Taiwan in 1979, the two countries continued to maintain “unofficial relations,” through the AIT, which is officially a non-profit “non-governmental organization,” with no Marines stationed. However it is understood that since 2005, the U.S. began stationing military officers in AIT Taipei office location, but with no military uniform. [FULL STORY]
