President Joe Biden’s pronouncements on foreign policy issues “may or may not” carry authoritative weight, a senior House Democrat concluded after a testy exchange with a State Department official.
“So, the president makes statements [and] the State Department may or may not decide that that's our policy,” Rep. Brad Sherman said Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing.That sardonic conclusion flowed from a pair of frustrated attempts to elicit a clear answer about whether the United States government intends to follow through on Biden’s pledge to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese Communist invasion.
Sherman’s line of questioning presented Pak with an uncomfortable choice — either to confirm that Biden’s policy towards Taiwan involves ordering U.S. troops into war in the event that China invades or to dodge the question at the risk of undermining Biden. Sherman was unrelenting. “I know the president speaks for himself. Does he speak for the administration?” he asked.
"So unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir,” a CBS journalist asked last year, “U.S. forces, U.S. men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion?”That public statement makes a marked contrast with traditional American policy. Historically, U.S. officials have maintained a posture of “strategic ambiguity,” in part to avoid the risk of provoking China, which claims sovereignty over the island even though the communist regime has never ruled there.
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