Is Joe Biden President? Thats the question to ask after staffers walked back Bidens latest remarks on Taiwan. During his rather uneven 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley last weekend, Biden firmly and clearly announced that the United States would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.
This was a dramatic statement, and a substantial shift from Americas traditional policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan, in which our response to Chinese saber-rattling over the island nation was essentially fool around and find out. Biden was not at all ambiguous: If China went to war with Taiwan, it would be war with the United States and its allies...........