The policy of strategic ambiguity does technically give the United States a way of staying out of any war between China and Taiwan, but the reality, even before Biden’s several comments, is that the world was already expecting the United States to send military forces into any China-Taiwan fray, thus risking nuclear escalation. NationalInterest.org
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Game Theory Predicts Biden Is About to Make a Big Move with China
At least that’s the surprising outcome of a forecasting model that the Central Intelligence Agency has used and praised — and which was deployed for POLITICO Magazine to seek insights on where the most important geopolitical relationship is going next. Political
Is Biden Being Machiavellian or Misguided on Taiwan?
But, you know, my biggest insight from teaching this course over the past decade is that Machiavelli was misunderstood. He was not as Machiavellian as people think. For example, he was a big believer in republican forms of government and thought that dictatorship was a fundamentally flawed system. Foreign Policy
Democracy Is Dying: ‘You Don’t Have the Time’
President Joe Biden revealed that after being elected to the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned him that democracies are on the decline and that one day “autocracies will run the world.”
“We’re living through a global struggle between autocracies and democracies,” Biden said during his commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduating class. Newsweek
Biden: Keep the South China Sea free
Biden told 1,200 graduating cadets in Annapolis, Maryland, that they are entering military service at a time of many global challenges and they will be charged with helping “preserve stability in an uncertain world.” MSN
His strength is authenticity
The country’s two most prominent liberal newspapers attempted to rationalize President Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy gaffe Monday where he claimed that the U.S. military would intervene if China invaded Taiwan, which is not official U.S. policy. Fox On MSN
Why Biden Is Right to End Ambiguity on Taiwan
It was no gaffe when the president said the U.S. would defend the island against China, but good policy. The Atlantic
Don’t read too much into defence pledge
Beijing and Taipei should not read too much into US President Joe Biden’s latest suggestion that the United States would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan against attack from Beijing, according to analysts. South China Morning Post
Why are Biden’s comments so controversial?
In an unscripted remark, US President Joe Biden went against his own government’s official policy by vowing to defend Taiwan militarily if China ever attacks. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu explains why Biden’s comments were so controversial. Al Jazeera English
China says Biden ‘playing with fire’ over Taiwan
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China warned President Biden that he is “playing with fire” over Taiwan after he publicly pledged for the third time to use force to defend the country. taiwannews.com.tw