(EFE) .- United States President Joe Biden said Thursday that his country would defend Taiwan if China launched an attack against the island.
“China, Russia, know that the United States has the most powerful military in the world,” Biden said during a televised voter event organized by CNN.
Asked whether the US would defend Taiwan militarily if China decides to invade the island, Biden replied: “Yes, we have a commitment.”
Tension between the United States and China over Taiwan has risen in recent weeks in the wake of military advances by the two sides.
China carried out a series of air raids near Taiwan, while the United States said it has assigned a small contingent of military personnel on the island for at least a year to train local forces.
The US and China are pushing the status quo created in 1979 to the limit, when Washington recognized Beijing as the only Chinese government with the understanding that Taiwan would have a peaceful future.
All this has created a rarefied climate in the region that has caused relations between Taipei and Beijing to go through their worst moment in the last four decades, according to local Taiwanese authorities.
Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng went so far as to affirm that China will be “capable of organizing a large-scale invasion” of the island by 2025, which has set off alarms in Washington. EFE
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Is Milley going to contact China in advance of any attack we may launch?
How in hell is this excuse for a Commander-In-Chief along with the dysfunctional commanders we have in the Military going to handle a situation with China?
YES milly probably will contact them ahead of time.. HE IS WORKING FOR CHINA.
Message to the Taiwanese citizens: BE PREPARED! ou saw how President Biden defended Afghanistan, it’s people and American citizens in that country when he withdrew, You also see how he is defending the borders of the United States, the country he took an oath to defend, from the invasion of illegal immigrants that the country can’t possibly handle. You might well be on your own against the Communists.
Be afraid. BE VERY afraid!!
No china and russia have the most powerful military now, pinocchio joe has seen to that with the morons he has placed in high military positions. Our higher up military officials are more worried about making sure sexual pervert service people have been addressed and treated correctly. If the US gets into a battle with a bunch of snowflakes, transgenders, sexual perverts and satanists we may stand a chance of winning but only because our military decision makers identify with these types.
Senile Joe the Sniff is a life long liar. Besides, the Chicoms wouldn’t let him, he and Hunter wants their next installment.
He will do for Taiwan what he did for Afghanistan.
Be afraid, be very afraid.