Twice this year, President Biden has blurted out commitments that the U.S. is prepared to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion — forcing the White House to walk back his statements and leading to confusion over a high-stakes national security policy.
in Taiwan's neighborhood earlier this month in operations designed to threaten and demoralize the island into accepting the inevitability of Chinese rule.Recent war games conducted by the Pentagon and the RAND Corporation indicated that ChinaThe U.S. government has a long-running policy of "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan. Within this sensitive construct, every word is delicately and legalistically parsed.
Given China's increasingly aggressive actions towards Taiwan, there's a hot debate within Washington's foreign policy community about whether the U.S. needs to make a stronger, clearer statement to deter China from invading.Since taking office, Biden has made two seemingly accidental statements that suggested a change in U.S. policy towards Taiwan.
Both times, the White House has had to play cleanup, insisting the president's statements do not reflect a change in policy. The White House did not respond to specific questions about whether Biden's comments were mistakes or deliberate.A source who has discussed these sensitive matters with top Biden officials said he believes Biden has been accidentally revealing his true views — that Taiwan is too strategically important to the U.S. for China to seize by force.
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