To make his commitment to Taiwan stick, 'Biden has work to do,' writes Washington columnist DoyleMcManus.
The fear that nothing will work to stop gun violence provides a powerful argument for doing nothing. But experience shows that stricter gun laws save lives.The White House and State Department hurriedly tried to walk back the president’s words.Biden critics called it a gaffe, but the statement wasn’t a slip of the tongue. Biden has used the same language about Taiwan three times in nine months.
In 1979, when President Carter recognized Beijing as the sole legitimate government of China, Congress passed the. It committed the United States to supply weapons to the island’s government. However, it did not commit the United States to intervene militarily against a Chinese invasion; that was left ambiguous. The idea was to deter China without directly opposing its aspiration to reabsorb Taiwan.
“I don’t think the confusion is helpful,” said Bonnie S. Glaser, director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund. It’s also not clear whether the United States could defeat a Chinese invasion. China’s navy is the largest in the world, although its ships are smaller and less sophisticated than those of the U.S. and its allies. A 2018 study commissioned by Congress warned that the United States “might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China.”
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