White House Walks Back Biden’s Statement About Defending Taiwan, Says He Misspoke
By Jack Posobiec | August 19, 2021
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A senior Biden administration official said Thursday that American policy on Taiwan has not changed despite Joe Biden appearing to suggest the United States would defend the island if it were attacked.
In an ABC Interview, Biden grouped Taiwan in with countries that the U.S. is committed to defending.
“They are…entities we’ve made agreements with based on not a civil war they’re having on that island or in South Korea, but on an agreement where they have a unity government that, in fact, is trying to keep bad guys from doing bad things to them,” Biden said.
“We made a sacred commitment to Article 5 that if in fact anyone were to invade or take action against our NATO allies, we would respond. Same with Japan, same with South Korea, same with – Taiwan. It’s not even comparable to talk about that.”
In case you are unfamiliar, Article 5 is an agreement which states that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all.
As reported by Reuters, a senior Biden official said the policy has not changed, however, and Biden simply misspoke.
Indeed, the U.S. is required by law to provide Taiwan with the necessary means to defend itself, but has followed a policy of “strategic ambiguity” on whether it would intervene to protect the island if there were a Chinese attack.
Bonnie Glaser, a Taiwan expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, called Biden’s apparent mistake “unfortunate.”
“The U.S. had an Article 5 commitment to Taiwan from 1954 to 1979. The Biden administration isn’t considering returning to that commitment, as indicated by public statements by Kurt Campbell.”
Clean up on aisle 5!
He didn’t misspoke he plain doesn’t know what the heck he is talking about.
Biden’s definitely living in the past.
“called Biden’s apparent mistake “unfortunate.””
Something the WH has to say quite often. Or is he instigating China?
“The U.S. had an Article 5 commitment to Taiwan from 1954 to 1979. The Biden administration isn’t considering returning to that commitment, as indicated by public statements by Kurt Campbell.”
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Thumbs up signal from the Biden Administration to the Chinese communist.
Bread and Circuses is the model from Ancient Rome, that the Dems have imposed on the US.
This is truly Biden (the Dems) fiddling, while the US burns. And the whole time they want to blame Trump, patriots, and all those who support our Republic.
Will the Dems follow the same pattern as Nero, and attempt to do that which was done to Christians?