American President Joe Biden said he would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack amid escalating tensions Taiwan Strait.
What happened: Biden was asked if US forces would defend the democratically ruled island. His response was, “Yes, if indeed there has been an unprecedented attack,” in an interview with CBS On Sunday.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Biden has often stressed that US forces would not fight Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. However, he will take a different path with Taiwan.
“Unlike Ukraine, to be clear sir, would US forces, US men and women defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion?” asked the journalist Biden, and the president’s answer was a resounding “yes.” .
Biden’s comments are the latest of several examples where the US appeared to go beyond its long-established policy towards Taiwan. The two nations have long maintained policies of “strategic ambiguity,” while the US has also often reiterated that it also respects the Chinese president Xi Jinping‘s “One China Policy.” “We agree to the one China policy and all related agreements,” he had previously said.
In the meantime a White House The spokesman said US policy towards Taiwan has not changed. “The President has said this before, including earlier this year in Tokyo. At the time, he also made it clear that our Taiwan policy had not changed. That remains true,” the spokesman said, according to a Reuters Report.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry also thanked Biden for reaffirming the US government’s “rock-solid security commitment to Taiwan.”
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