“Fraud-In-Chief” Joe Biden committed yet another “diplomatic gaffe” at a CNN town hall when he said Washington had a commitment to come to Taiwan’s “defense if it were attacked by China.”
Yet like Biden’s gaffes usually, this one was not without an element of deliberateness. He was even insistent. Indeed, there is an ongoing debate in the US on this topic and Biden tapped into it.
Nonetheless, the very next day, the White House sought to walk back Biden’s comments, explaining he “wasn’t announcing a change in policy nor have we changed our policy. We are guided by the Taiwan Relations Act.”
The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 commits the US to providing Taiwan with arms for its self-defense but not to sending American troops to defend Taiwan.
Read more at “Biden’s Taiwan defense gaffe tempered by realities”
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