{"id":910237,"date":"2021-10-22T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=910237"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T18:29:26","slug":"china-calls-bidens-bluff-on-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-calls-bidens-bluff-on-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"China Calls Biden\u2019s Bluff on Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fchina-calls-bidens-bluff-on-taiwan%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=910237&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-630036684-e1631899979113.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Less than a day after President Joe Biden said the United States would come to Taiwan&#8217;s defense if China were to launch an attack on the territory, one of the Communist Party&#8217;s leading propaganda organs is calling the president&#8217;s bluff.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em>, a Communist Party mouthpiece closely tied to the regime, on Friday quickly jumped on the comments, saying &#8220;Biden won&#8217;t make good on \u2018defend Taiwan&#8217; claim.&#8221; The propaganda outlet further accused the president of significantly shifting U.S. policy on Taiwan, which it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237049.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a>&nbsp;as &#8220;a major shift in the cross-Straits situation&#8221; that is &#8220;bound to trigger fierce confrontation&#8221; with the Chinese military.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was asked&nbsp;during a televised town hall event on Thursday evening if America would come to Taiwan&#8217;s defense were China to launch an assault. &#8220;Yes, we have a commitment to do that,&#8221; Biden said. His remarks came amid China&#8217;s increasingly aggressive stance toward Taiwan, including invading the island country&#8217;s airspace earlier this month with a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-threatens-taiwan-on-twitter-as-warplanes-swarm-island\/\">swarm<\/a>&nbsp;of more than 50 warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the United States has refrained from saying it would confront Chinese troops were they to try and seize Taiwan. The White House on Friday sought to clarify Biden&#8217;s remarks. &#8220;The president was not announcing any change in our policy and there is no change in our policy,&#8221; a spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexbward\/status\/1451371300878958598?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Communist Party boosters are not buying Biden&#8217;s rhetoric, saying the People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) would &#8220;wipe out&#8221; the U.S. military if it were to intervene in a conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether it is a slip of the tongue, such a statement will not influence the Chinese mainland&#8217;s determination and will over its stance on cross-Straits ties,&#8221; the <em>Global Times<\/em> wrote. &#8220;The PLA has an overwhelming advantage over the military on Taiwan island, with full capacity to cause unbearable results to US troops if they dare \u2018defend&#8217; the island, and even to wipe them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a day after President Joe Biden said the United States would come to Taiwan&#8217;s defense if China were to launch an attack on the territory, one of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1893872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910237","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}