So which is it, Joe? Biden vows US troops WILL defend Taiwan if China invades – but White House maintains official policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ still stands as president sits for first TV interview in seven months
- President Biden said he would use US soldiers to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island
- The comments came in the president’s first 60 Minutes interview of his presidency, and the first television interview he has given in seven months
- Biden also declared the COVID-19 pandemic officially over, and refused to comment on whether or not he planned to run for reelection in 2024
Alex Oliveira – Daily Mail Sept 19, 2022
Joe Biden has vowed the US military will defend Taiwan if China launches an invasion as he ramped up the rhetoric with Beijing over the tiny island nation.
The President suggested he would deploy troops to the region if Xi Jinping’s forces initiated an ‘unprecedented attack’.
But his explosive comments were quickly torpedoed by the White House, which said official policy had not changed.
An official rushed to stress the US remains ‘strategic ambiguity’ to the threat to Taiwan – as set out in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.
Biden’s comments mark the furthest the president has gone towards embroiling America in another global war amid rising tensions in the Far East.
It comes after he announced a $1.1billion arms package for the island and vowed to keep boosting its defense as the prospect of invasion looms.
Appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday night – his first TV interview in over seven months – Biden was asked: ‘Would U.S. forces defend the island?’
He replied: ‘Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack.’
Journalist Scott Pelley said: ‘So unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir. US forces, US men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion?’
‘Yes,’ Biden said.
Despite the president’s black and white comments, after the interview a White House official said the US official policy towards the defense of Taiwan – the ‘strategic ambiguity’ outlined in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act – remained unchanged.
‘The President has said this before, including in Tokyo earlier this year,’ the official said. ‘He also made clear then that our Taiwan policy hasn’t changed. That remains true.’
Joe thinks Taiwan is his golf course. Give his handlers a few days to reprogram his dying synapses and he’ll get it right. It’s hard to run a country with formaldehyde pumping through his veins.
What Biden means, is that US troops will load aid and ammunition. That’s it.
Let’s say the US decided before the invasion, during, or after the invasion. Huge numbers of Amerikan wokey wokies are gonna die.
There’s no way the US could get ships or planes anywhere near Taiwan when an invasion takes place. US carriers can’t get anywhere near Taiwan. Not even close enough to use fighter jets. Yes, they can use refueling planes, but if one of these gets taken out, $1 trillions worth would crash into. The sea, cus they ran out of fuel.
We know who makes the criminally insane, homicidal, and suicidal foreign policy decisions for the Jewnited States and it sure as hell is not Slow Joe the Pedo Bribem. It’s the Jews, of course.