Biden Taiwan

Remarks by the US president come amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing and follow a contentious visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy ...

The current rhetoric from the U.S. In Taiwan, however, [resistance to the idea of reunification has grown](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/07/why-is-unification-so-unpopular-in-taiwan-its-the-prc-political-system-not-just-culture/) amid a [surge of support for moving the island toward independence](https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/doc/6963/Tondu202112.jpg). politician to go to the island in decades. and Taiwan and included provisions for the U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan](https://theconversation.com/why-nancy-pelosis-visit-to-taiwan-puts-the-white-house-in-delicate-straits-of-diplomacy-with-china-188116), making her the highest-profile U.S. A [critical section of that document](https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/121325) stated: “The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. [appear to deviate](https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202209190005) from the official U.S. By leaving the answer to that question ambiguous, the U.S. [victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949](https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/chinese-rev), the defeated Republic of China government withdrew to the island of Taiwan, located just 100 miles off the shore of Fujian province. China and Taiwan are left guessing if – and to what extent – the U.S. policy on the island – is that it allows for a U.S. Crucially, the U.S.

Overshadowed by U.S. President Joe Biden's headline-grabbing vow that American forces would defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack was his hint at possibly ...

has a commitment to fight for Taiwan and that Taiwan makes its own judgments about independence," said Craig Singleton, a China policy expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. They also say Biden's comments are more likely to aggravate hostilities than overt defense commitments since Beijing already likely assumes Washington will defend Taiwan. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has long-vowed to bring Taiwan under Beijing's control and has not ruled out the use of force to do so. "Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence. stance of not taking a position on Taiwan's independence. President Joe Biden's headline-grabbing vow that American forces would defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack was his hint at possibly shifting U.S.

US President Joe Biden once again said on Monday morning AEST that the United States would defend Taiwan if China attacked. The comments overturn decades of ...

Then Defence Minister Peter Dutton said it would be “unthinkable” for Australia not to join the conflict with the US. [Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here](/link/follow-20170101-p56l7u). “[The] long-standing policy is that the US does not support [Taiwan] independence and is opposed to unilateral changes from either side,” she said. Taiwan, which most recently split from the mainland after the Chinese civil war in 1949, has been self-governed for decades but is not recognised by most international institutions as being run by an independent government. The position of “strategic ambiguity” has been maintained over decades to avoid triggering an escalation that could turn into open conflict. US President Joe Biden once again said on Monday morning AEST that the United States would defend Taiwan if China attacked.

President Joe Biden has once again vowed to defend Taiwan against China, seemingly breaking with the strategic ambiguity the United States has long sought ...

[Pure Chaos](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/is-tiktok-turning-fashion-week-into-pure-chaos?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-091422)? “Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy,” Pelosi [said](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/02/world/pelosi-taiwan) during the August trip. [three other occasions](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123759127/biden-again-says-u-s-would-help-taiwan-if-china-attacks?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com) over the past year in which Biden seemed to promise a military response to Chinese aggression in Taiwan. “We are willing to do our best to strive for peaceful reunification,” Mao said Monday, warning the U.S. official to [visit Taiwan](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/biden-administration-insists-pelosi-taiwan-visit-doesnt-change-us-policy) in decades — a move that earned her rare praise from some Republicans. against sending the “wrong signals” to Taiwan. [fear](https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ukraine-war-likely-impact-china-invasion-taiwan-2022-7) could precipitate a Chinese invasion of the island. Biden did leave some latitude in his remarks by noting that he is “not encouraging” Taiwan to pursue full independence. The White House and Pelosi herself insisted that the trip did not signal a policy shift. But that could become a harder position to maintain as U.S. For decades, the U.S. President Joe Biden has once again vowed to defend Taiwan against China, seemingly breaking with the strategic ambiguity the United States has long sought to maintain in the region.

When Washington doesn't speak with one voice, its powers of strategic ambiguity are slowly chipped away.

In no more carefully prepared text than this year’s [State of the Union](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/01/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-delivered/) address, Biden declared that “Putin’s latest attack on Ukraine was premeditated and unprovoked”. But Beijing would want to know that the ambiguity is deliberate. An invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Liberation Army certainly would be an “unprecedented attack”. It’s had a workout on that war [more than once](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_22_2007). It is clear Biden wants China to know that, at least in the most serious of circumstances, the United States would come to Taipei’s military assistance. And each time, after the fact, his officials have had to insist that Washington’s policy has not changed. [four occasions](https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/biden-locks-in-defence-of-taiwan-australia-will-have-to-respond-20220919-p5bjbt.html) now, the President has indicated that the United States would enter a war to defend Taiwan against aggression. But as both political systems got to know each other, and weathered the occasional crisis without going to war, the hope was that leaderships on both sides of the divide could separate the authentic signal from the noise, to borrow an argument from But China’s problem is that the White House does not speak with one voice on Taiwan. If a maverick Senator stood up and insisted on rollback in a fire-breathing rant, did that mean US forces were about to intrude beyond the Iron Curtain? In the Cold War, analysts were sometimes concerned that the Kremlin might misread a rogue statement of bellicosity in Washington DC as an indication of White House intentions. Strategic learning has also done some work in the China–US relationship.

Overshadowed by US President Joe Biden's headline-grabbing vow that American forces would defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack was his hint at possibly ...

He added Beijing will likely worry that Biden is suggesting Taiwan can decide itself whether it is independent. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has long-vowed to bring Taiwan under Beijing’s control and has not ruled out the use of force to do so. They also say Biden’s comments are more likely to aggravate hostilities than overt defense commitments since Beijing already likely assumes Washington will defend Taiwan.

The Chinese foreign ministry says China has lodged "stern representations" with the United States, after President Joe Biden...

That's the commitment we made." "The president has said this before, including in Tokyo earlier this year. "There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is part of China, and the government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government of China," said Mao.