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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Biden Keeps Pledging Direct US War With China Over Taiwan
Published: 2022-09-19
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmFhAYYYMA
Title: Biden Keeps Pledging Direct US War With China Over Taiwan
Published: 2022-09-19
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmFhAYYYMA
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biting keeps pledging direct U. S. hot war with China over Taiwan the president of the United States has once again committed the U. S. military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers in a recent sixty minutes interview Biden was asked point blank by CBS news is Scott2/13
Pelley if U. S. forces would defend Taiwan from an attack by the mainland yes if in fact there was an unprecedented attack Biden said after our interview a White House official told us U. S. policy has not changed pally narrates after the comment officially the US will not say whether American forces would defend Taiwan but the commander in chief had a view of his own so3/13
unlike Ukraine to be clear Sir U. S. forces U. S. men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion Pelley asked yes Biden replied this is by my count the fourth time the U. S. president has made such remarks in transgression of his government's standing policy of strategic ambiguity on the issue only to have them walk back by administration staff this past4/13
may Biden said yes when asked by the press of the U. S. would defend the Taiwan militarily in the event of a Chinese invasion adding that's the commitment we made a White House official later stated that the president's comments did not reflect the change in US policy at the CNN forum in October of last year by then responded in the affirmative when asked by an audience5/13
member if the U. S. would intervene to defend Taiwan and said yes we have a commitment when asked to clarify if he meant intervening against an attack from China again the White House quickly clarified that there is no change in our policy in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos in August of last year but I didn't imply that the US would defend Taiwan as it would6/13
a NATO ally saying the U. S. has kept every commitment same with Taiwan when asked if China might be emboldened to attack the island by the U. S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan again a senior administration official told the press our policy with regard to Taiwan has not changed it is worth noting at this time that Biden's repeated assertion that the U. S. has a commitment to7/13
defend Taiwan militarily is objectively false that hasn't been the case for over forty years I've listed these statements in reverse chronological order and you can see that they get more vague the earlier they are now you've got the president clearly and explicitly saying that he will send U. S. troops to kill and be killed in a direct hot war with China to defend Taiwan I don't8/13
know why the US president keeps verbally committing his armed forces to a third world war against the nuclear armed nation only to have it walked back over and over again by the administration he's supposed to be in charge of is this just some neurological glitch in an aging brain which promoted war and militarism throughout its entire time in office is it some weird new tactic in9/13
this strategic ambiguity to have different parts of the administration saying completely different things and totally unambiguous ways is by then just a crazy warmonger I don't know but what I do know is that all this chaos and confusion is happening at the worst possible time as Brett Wilkins explains for common dreams a new bill from the US Senate foreign relations committee threatens to bring the world10/13
much closer to her ethnic war due to the way it would upend existing U. S. policy on China with its recognition of Taiwan as a major non NATO ally as part of a commitment to send billions of dollars worth of weapons to the island fears of what this could unleash upon our world have caused even fairly reliable empire facilitators like ed Markey to vote against the11/13
bill which Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Maung Naing says what quote greatly shake the political foundation of US China relations and because extremely serious consequences to China US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait this is just one of the ways that tensions with China are being ramped up with astonishing speed over Taiwan among them also the normalization of sending an increasingly high number of12/13
U. S. officials to Taipei and steadily rising contempt for Washington's one China policy which has kept the peace along this flashpoint for decades this time one situation is getting uglier and uglier much faster than expected and the president of the world's mightiest war machine is either too stupid to blood thirsty to care less or two demented to navigate the situation with the sensitivity it deserves things