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Biden spits empty, reckless words on Taiwan question amid Afghanistan embarrassment: Global Times editorial
https://www.globaltimes.cn ^ | Aug 20, 202-

Posted on 08/19/2021 8:06:31 PM PDT by 11th_VA

In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, responding to questions about whether "the US cannot be trusted," US President Joe Biden said: "We made a sacred commitment to Article Five 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 [Afghanistan to] talk about that."

… Stuttering when speaking on the Taiwan question, Biden was like a dotard, and we doubt if he knew exactly what he was talking about. No senior officials in office in the US have made remarks as what Biden said. Biden lost face because of the Afghanistan situation. He is being fiercely attacked by US public opinion and also reprimanded by the public opinion of his allies. Now is undoubtedly the most difficult moment since he took office. He was so eager and embarrassed to save face for himself that he talked recklessly, without thinking.

China will never accept Biden's threat. China's strong military capabilities and national resolution despise what he said. If the Biden administration insists on the president's claims, breaking the status quo of the Taiwan Straits by shifting from "strategic ambiguity" to making a clear statement of its defense of Taiwan, then it will have to prepare for much greater storms in the Straits…

We want to warn secessionists on the Taiwan island: Don't swim in the sputum that Biden carelessly spits out. The US won't "defend" Taiwan; what it wants to do is encourage the island to confront the mainland and use Taiwan to contain the mainland's development. What Washington wants is "Taiwan fights for itself," or more exactly, "Taiwan fights for the US."...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; china; taiwan
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Wow - he really pissed off the Chinese …
1 posted on 08/19/2021 8:06:31 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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2 posted on 08/19/2021 8:08:13 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: 11th_VA

War is coming.

L


3 posted on 08/19/2021 8:09:36 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: 11th_VA

Forget impeachment. This idiot needs to be led off stage.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 8:10:03 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: 11th_VA

Meanwhile, Brit paratroopers and French special police forces are retrieving Americans and others from behind Taliban lines, while the vaunted 82nd Airborne soils its diapers behind the barbed wire at the Kabul airport.


5 posted on 08/19/2021 8:11:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: 11th_VA

This entire fiasco is the result of the stupid idea that he wanted to “celebrate” the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a withdrawal. They just wanted the optics and the talking points. They clearly did not think about much beyond that.


6 posted on 08/19/2021 8:11:43 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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“Joe Biden said: “We made a sacred commitment to Article Five 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.”

He’s referring to a treaty that Carter ended 40 years ago.

This is proof of Biden’s Alzheimer’s.


7 posted on 08/19/2021 8:12:15 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Because of the actions of this demented buffoon, many will die shortly in Afghanistan and many more will probably die in Taiwan, Japan, and in Southeast Asia, because of the people who put him there.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 8:14:05 PM PDT by wetgundog
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War is coming.

It will end up being worse than anyone might imagine.

9 posted on 08/19/2021 8:16:44 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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I don’t think so. I think he emboldened them. Taiwan before New Years. Once Taiwan is digested, Australia.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 8:17:21 PM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Tired, Cranky and Disgusted)
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I think you’re exactly right. It argues an underlying contempt for the enemy and a conviction that the entire world is your personal stage. Such individuals are too immature to be in charge of foreign policy and unfortunately, they are. Did Biden’s team really think that they could unilaterally change the agreement with the Taliban and dictate a date more to their personal advantage and that nothing bad could happen as a result? Clearly they did. That is hubris in its exact form.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 8:17:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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“if in fact anyone were to invade or take action against our NATO allies, we would respond.”

I’m sure they’re already working on that sternly worded communique.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 8:18:52 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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He’d better be careful...no doubt China has a LOT of dirt on Joe and his drug addict progeny! Plenty of nails for his coffin should they choose.


14 posted on 08/19/2021 8:19:31 PM PDT by boatbums (Lord, make my life a testimony to the value of knowing you.)
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To: TurtleDad

Blutarsky became a U.S. Senator, if you remember.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 8:20:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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“Wow - he really pissed off the Chinese … “

And they own his bank account.

His entire family is going to be pissed. They’re going to have to get rid of him or the spigots will run dry in a hurry.


16 posted on 08/19/2021 8:21:02 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: 11th_VA

“Go ahead” is a response.


17 posted on 08/19/2021 8:23:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: ifinnegan
Blutarsky became a U.S. Senator, if you remember.

Republican, I believe.

18 posted on 08/19/2021 8:24:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: monkeyshine

Can there be a bigger propaganda gift in the history of warfare?


19 posted on 08/19/2021 8:25:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Lurker

I believe you are correct, sadly.


20 posted on 08/19/2021 8:26:00 PM PDT by bella1 (Mean Tweets 2024!)
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