Time to be clear on Taiwan? ‘Strategic ambiguity’ faces test.
by Noah Robertson
Dec 14, 2021
2 minutes
At a CNN town hall in late October, President Joe Biden was asked whether the United States would defend Taiwan if China attempted an invasion. His answer was simple.
“Yes, we have a commitment to do that,” the president said.
But official U.S. policy is a good deal less clear, as the White House clarified immediately afterward. That’s deliberate. For more than 40 years, the U.S. has adopted
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