{"id":1488556,"date":"2022-05-23T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488556"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:30:53","slug":"dire-straits-white-house-walks-back-bidens-taiwan-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dire-straits-white-house-walks-back-bidens-taiwan-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire Straits: White House Walks Back Biden\u2019s Taiwan Gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdire-straits-white-house-walks-back-bidens-taiwan-gaffe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The White House on Monday walked back President Joe Biden&#8217;s comments declaring the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, the latest instance of the president&#8217;s own administration repudiating his foreign policy statements.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in Tokyo after Biden met with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, a reporter asked the president whether the United States would &#8220;get involved militarily to defend Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Biden replied. &#8220;That&#8217;s the commitment we made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The declaration would have represented a departure from U.S. foreign policy, which has been ambiguous as to whether the United States would defend Taiwan from China. But Biden administration officials quickly walked back the president&#8217;s pledge, saying his statement did not amount to a new commitment to fight for Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our policy has not changed,&#8221; a White House official told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The incident marked the third time the White House has retracted comments Biden made proclaiming a commitment to defend Taiwan. In August, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/biden-taiwan-china-us-defence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the United States has a &#8220;sacred commitment&#8221; to respond to an attack on Taiwan, and in October, he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/22\/white-house-walks-back-comments-biden-made-at-cnn-town-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he was committed to &#8220;come to Taiwan&#8217;s defense if China attacked.&#8221; In both cases, White House officials later insisted U.S. policy regarding Taiwan remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said Biden&#8217;s gaffe provides an opportunity for the United States to clearly state its Taiwan policy, and that &#8220;strategic clarity and military strength is the best way to deter China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s now essential that President Biden restate our new policy of strategic clarity in clear, deliberate remarks from a prepared text,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;Otherwise, the continued ambiguity and uncertainty will likely provoke the Chinese communists without deterring them\u2014the worst of both worlds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying Biden&#8217;s comments on foreign policy is nothing new for administration officials. In March, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-walks-back-multiple-biden-remarks-europe-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walked back<\/a> three provocative statements the president made during a trip to Poland: that Russian president Vladimir Putin &#8220;cannot remain in power,&#8221; that the United States would respond &#8220;in kind&#8221; to Russian use of chemical weapons, and that U.S. troops would be deployed to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In January, after Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/20\/1074466148\/biden-russia-ukraine-minor-incursion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">let slip<\/a> that Russia might get away with lesser punishment for a &#8220;minor incursion&#8221; into Ukraine rather than a full-scale invasion, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted the United States remained committed to respond forcefully to any attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, Biden said he was &#8220;open&#8221; to Putin&#8217;s proposal for a prisoner swap of cybercriminals. That same day, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the president&#8217;s comments were &#8220;over-read or misread&#8221; and that the United States was not interested in a prisoner swap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Monday walked back President Joe Biden&#8217;s comments declaring the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, the latest instance of the president&#8217;s own administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}