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I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

First, in the face of an increasingly antagonistic China, Taiwan has publicly confirmed for the first time

that there are U.S. troops stationed on their front lines.

Also, we'll discuss the implications of a new report, revealing that roughly 200,000

deportation cases have been thrown out under President Biden due to officials in the administration filing the wrong paperwork.

But first, our afternoon spotlight.

She and his Chinese Communist Party in Beijing heightened tensions in the South China Sea,

were learning now that there are U.S. troops stationed in Taiwan on a permanent basis,

including on an island just one mile off of China's coast.

The rare admission came from the Taiwanese

defense minister who acknowledged during a recent press conference that

U.S. troops have been training the Taiwanese military on the country's

outlying islands in the event of an invasion from the Chinese

mainland, these islands, of course, would serve as essentially the front lines of the conflict.

The U.S. remains Taiwan's largest arm supplier and international supporter, but has not had an official

military presence in Taiwan since 1979.

China's increasing aggression towards the island democracy, however, is clearly, possibly, maybe,

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