A Taiwan News report, not yet confirmed by either government, says American defense personnel will be placed inside Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, working alongside its staff rather than just visiting or advising.
A trade deal between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping has calmed financial markets.
China has warned of 'consequences' against Taiwan and against the small Pacific Island nations that hosted Taiwanese diplomats at the Pacific Islands Forum summit.
At least five leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum, a group of small Pacific Ocean nations, are skipping this year's summit.
China sent 244 ships around Taiwan last month, the highest monthly total on record, according to a report cited by Taipei Times and the China-Global South Project.
An undersea internet cable near Taiwan was damaged, and a separate study found China has been testing a bigger navy presence on the Pacific side of the island, the route allies would use to send help in a crisis.
This week, officials in Germany, Italy, Australia, India and Iran each said their country was already under attack, calling it 'hybrid war' rather than war — a mix of drone incursions, cut undersea cables and cyberattacks that stops short of open warfare.
In the same week, Luxembourg looked at buying a European air-defence system, Australia became the first foreign buyer of a new US air-to-air missile, India test-fired a nuclear-capable missile, and analysts noted Taiwan's missile stockpile still has gaps.
Taiwan began its largest annual military exercise, called Han Kuang, on Wednesday, testing how well its armed forces could respond to a potential attack by China.
Deterrence has always been a belief, not a weapon. This week, in Tehran, Kyiv, Tokyo and along the Korean border, that belief started to fail in the same place at once.
A strait America cannot keep open, a navy built to close another, a nuclear taboo cracking in Tokyo, factories rising in Romania and Ukraine — read together, the week tells a single story about who pays for security and who collects.
Beijing is normalising coast-guard patrols off Taiwan's east coast even as it fires missiles into the Pacific. Taipei's response is not a threat of retaliation but a warning to everyone else: without collective pushback, the pressure only ratchets.