U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, in a series of critical comments about China he made in Tokyo that an aide said represented no change in U.S. policy on the self-ruled island.
It’s unclear whether this was just a poorly crafted response explaining a policy that requires a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. The US has long shied away from actively endorsing Taiwanese independence because the Chinese government would likely see that as a sign of a closing window of opportunity for taking over Taiwan.
It’s unclear whether this was just a poorly crafted response explaining a policy that requires a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. The US has long shied away from actively endorsing Taiwanese independence because the Chinese government would likely see that as a sign of a closing window of opportunity for taking over Taiwan.