{"id":258844,"date":"2022-09-19T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258844"},"modified":"2022-09-20T07:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T07:09:58","slug":"joe-biden-vows-to-defend-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258844","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Vows to Defend Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So which is it, Joe? Biden vows US troops WILL defend Taiwan if China invades &#8211; but White House maintains official policy of &#8216;strategic ambiguity&#8217; still stands as president sits for first TV interview in seven months<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President Biden said he would use US soldiers to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The comments came in the president&#8217;s first 60 Minutes interview of his presidency, and the first television interview he has given in seven months<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biden also\u00a0declared the COVID-19 pandemic officially over, and refused to comment on whether or not he planned to run for reelection in 2024<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alex Oliveira \u2013 Daily Mail Sept 19, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-sixty-minutes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-258847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-sixty-minutes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-sixty-minutes.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-sixty-minutes-480x265.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 634px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The President suggested he would deploy troops to the region if Xi Jinping&#8217;s forces initiated an &#8216;unprecedented attack&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But his explosive comments were quickly torpedoed by the White House, which said official policy had not changed.<\/p>\n<p>An official rushed to stress the US remains\u00a0&#8216;strategic ambiguity&#8217; to the threat to Taiwan &#8211; as set out in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s comments mark the furthest the president has gone towards embroiling America in another global war amid rising tensions in the Far East.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday night &#8211; his first TV interview in over seven months &#8211; Biden was asked:\u00a0&#8216;Would U.S. forces defend the island?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He replied: &#8216;Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Scott Pelley said:\u00a0&#8216;So unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/russia-ukraine-conflict\/index.html\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/a>, to be clear, sir. US forces, US men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yes,&#8217; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the president&#8217;s black and white comments, after the interview a White House official said the US official policy towards the defense of Taiwan &#8211; the &#8216;strategic ambiguity&#8217; outlined in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act &#8211; remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The President has said this before, including in Tokyo earlier this year,&#8217; the official said. &#8216;He also made clear then that our Taiwan policy hasn&#8217;t changed. That remains true.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11225881\/Joe-Biden-vows-DEFEND-Taiwan-China-invades.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, shortly after Biden pledges to defend Taiwan a White House official disputes the president\u2019s commitment. Raising questions over who is making U.S. foreign policy decisions?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258848,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258844\/revisions\/258848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}