Posted on 05/23/2022 4:49:22 AM PDT by blam
While on a visit to Japan to meet with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, President Joe Biden said that American troops would defend Taiwan if it came under attack from China.
“You didn’t want to get involved in the Ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?” a reporter asked Biden during a news conference. “Yes,” Biden replied.
NEW – Biden says the US would defend #Taiwan militarily against an invasion by China. pic.twitter.com/xxXEj1o2PJ
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 23, 2022
The somewhat incredulous reporter, upon hearing blunt and perhaps unexpected answer in the affirmative pressed further, “You are?”
“That’s the commitment we made,” the president said.
However, it remains entirely unknown and unclear what “commitment” the president is talking about, given there’s currently no mutual defense treaty between the US and Taiwan (President Carter had terminated the historic Mutual Defense Treaty/MDT). Is President Biden confused? Is he latching on to pre-1979 memories in US foreign policy?
Naturally, the White House quickly scrambled to try and walk back the president’s clear affirmation that he would send a US military force against nuclear-armed superpower China in the event of an invasion. A statement said that the US policy “has not changed.”
Via The Independent
“As the president said, our policy has not changed,” a White House spokesperson said, clearly attempting to downplay and obfuscate Biden’s own words. “He reiterated our One China Policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. He also reiterated our commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act to provide Taiwan with the military means to defend itself.”
A number of observers have noted that Biden just casually committed the US to deepened involvement against China, and another future catastrophic war…
Biden has nominally claimed to be wary of starting WWIII. Recently he’s threatened Russia with regime change, and now threatens direct war with China. For a guy who is supposedly wary of WWIII, he’s certainly been “loose-lipped” with unprecedented provocations of major powers
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 23, 2022
Soon after the president’s remarks, Taiwan “thanked” the president for his reaffirmation of US support.
China’s foreign ministry, on the other hand, issued swift condemnation, expressing “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition” to his words. It stressed China will not compromise on this issue of its sovereignty, given the democratic island is claimed by Beijing.
The remarks further triggered an avalanche of angry reaction from state-linked pundits…
PLA’s firepower in the Taiwan Straits has long surpassed that of US military. Biden says US military would defend Taiwan – does Biden wish to bring those soldiers back in coffins or let them sink into the Taiwan Straits to feed the fish? So, let’s cherish peace together. https://t.co/TOmJgJqEWW
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) May 23, 2022
“No one should underestimate the strong determination, firm will, and strong ability of the Chinese people to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and do not stand against the 1.4 billion Chinese people,” China’s foreign ministry added, which at the same time sounded like a bit of a threat.
Axios speculates that Biden’s words were meant as an intentionally tough deterrent warning to China as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to grind on. International relations professor James Brown told the publication that Washington is “seeking to toughen their policy but without necessarily provoking China.”
And the doomsday “clock”? Why are we not hearing about it? Whenever there’s a Republican president they move that thing to 2 seconds before midnight.
With biden, putin, North Korea and China are real threats, and that “clock” no move!
I am sure Biden (whatever that is) will fight to the last American.
do we have a “loose cannon” in the WH???
Send Hunter.
Wow. Should be interesting logistics considering the distance between China and Taiwan. How many Treasuries does China hold anyway?
Yeah he’ll be behind us the whole way.
This is the second time Biden has threatened mitary action and the real people in charge have walked it back.
Either Biden is not in charge or incompetent.
That is the only question that needs to be answered.
Especially since half the US population--Democrats and their supporters--who serve them as a fifth column within the USA!
War is good business : invest your son.
Maybe this is how he plans on fixing the economy.
...I was wondering the same thing......please forgive my ignorance but has the United States entered into some sort of NATO-like agreement with Taiwan that forces us to come to their aid if the ChiComs invade, which they probably will at some point in the not-too-distant future....?? if we have not, then this miserable PoS of a President is speaking out of turn and needs to be corrected immediately....
Biden’s team was all over the morning shows walking back the military threat..... again
No loose Cannon, just loose BOWELS !
Damn, we need Trump now.
My take:
Our president is severely compromised, and subject blackmail.
China makes its move, having waited decades, knowing this. They can expose a whole coven of high-ranking U.S. officials, now controlling the Federal government, and China has an oversized influence on our economy.
Very dark clouds on the horizon.
The price of dumbed-down voters and evil, greedy, self-absorbed, toxically ambitious candidates for high office: nowhere the same character of our founders, who did not presume that they were anointed gods.
Ugh
My take:
Our president is severely compromised, and subject blackmail.
China makes its move, having waited decades, knowing this. They can expose a whole coven of high-ranking U.S. officials, now controlling the Federal government, and China has an oversized influence on our economy.
Very dark clouds on the horizon.
The price of dumbed-down voters and evil, greedy, self-absorbed, toxically ambitious candidates for high office: nowhere the same character of our founders, who did not presume that they were anointed gods.
Ugh
...thanks for the update....this guy is nutz, plain and simple....how much longer will it be before that Article 25 or whatever it is is invoked to remove him....? he is a danger to our once-great republic.....
FJB.
He’ll crap bricks too, IF he’s well-fed and got a square butt hole.
If I was a Taiwanese I’d be planning my exit, Xiden just sealed my fate...
"please forgive my ignorance but has the United States entered into some sort of NATO-like agreement with Taiwan that forces us to come to their aid if the ChiComs invade"
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