In another expansion of blatant U.S. preparation for Taiwan to be the center of another U.S. proxy war, this time against China, the Taipei Times reports that Taiwan-U.S. military exercises were conducted in Michigan from August 5th to the 19th, involving some 7,000 combined personnel. The US side was chiefly represented by the Michigan National Guard, and reportedly not troops overseen directly by the Pentagon.
Dubbed “Northern Strike,” the entire joint battalion of Taiwan’s 333rd Infantry Brigade was sent to Michigan, a sign that more such US-based exercises could be on the horizon.
Japan’s Sankei Shimbun said that, to not provoke China too much, the Michigan exercises were led by the National Guard — normally overseen by US state governments, although they are in fact part of the Armed Forces.
In that regard, it is important to take note that Gen. Laura Richardson, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, on Jan. 19, 2023, in an interview in the Atlantic Council’s Commanders Series, revealed something extremely important about the role of the National Guard:
“Ukraine has the state partnership program with California. How did we initially start our great coordination with Ukraine? It was leveraged to the National Guard State partnership program that California had.” See: https://larouchepub.com/other/2023/5005-u_s_military_out_to_force_iber.html
