US will intervene if China attacks Taiwan, says Biden - BBC News

US President Joe Biden has warned China is "flirting with danger" over Taiwan, and vowed to intervene militarily to protect the island if it is attacked.

Speaking in Japan, he appeared to contradict long-standing US policy in the region, although the White House insisted there had been no departure.

Biden drew a parallel between Taiwan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, prompting an angry rebuke from Beijing.

China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province that must be re-unified with the mainland.

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[embreis]

surprising, he actually said the US would be _willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan_ . but maybe this is a good thing to be said out loud now instead of picking up the pieces later in case another autocratic regime takes a gamble and miscalculates the forces at work

[Dogbertforpresident]

Taiwan currently produces over 90% of the worlds computer chips. Taiwan's independence is a national security issue for the West.

[greatmorningLife]

The same way you fooled Zelensky only to tell him your prayers are with him and you will send weapons.
Russia and China is not lraq and Libya.

[mattgarcia]

His people yelled in his ear after he said that like woah woah Joe don't do that haha

[angryxinch]

Have had suspicions that this was the exact reason for no direct response in Ukraine. Think the US takes china much more serious than Russia and are concerned of getting caught up in Ukraine, that china would use the opportunity and the US wouldn’t be able to focus full attention there

[artsimulation]

Holy cow - "Yes" - not often we hear a president give a one word answer. A clear and concise message, no misunderstanding can be made of that.

[utand]

more and more Taiwanese don't believe that US would really send any help to defend Taiwan if the war happened.

[northstar]

Very good. The USA needs to be a stand up nation. Not only for its values but also in standing up to authoritarian regimes,

[AlmightyDude]

I hope he's serious about it. Taiwan is an important ally, and Taiwan deserves military support

[MusicalMercenary]

Bring to mind the current/imminent looming food crisis caused in part by the war in Ukraine, now imagine that amount of shortage applying to the most sophisticated and smallest microchips that all advanced and many everyday technology relies on. Taiwan is the producer of the overwhelming majority of the entire worlds smallest and most advanced semiconductors, and they have a monopoly on the technology and ability to create them. Losing those microchip foundries would be devastating to everyone.

[dannnsss]

Joe was confused, the US does NOT have a defense treaty with Taiwan, unlike Japan and South Korea. US has NO OBLIGATION to militarily defend Taiwan.

[terry]

he wasn't sure himself when he said yes lol

[benderisgreatable]

Acknowledging Taiwan by name is a large enough deal on its own, this statement could be impactful to China's decisions.

[samiaziz]

No force, no invasion, no violence, no annexation of Taiwan....A Win for humanity.

[Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

White House walked back Biden’s “yes”.
😂 a lot of people in the comments missed that part of the video.

[phamhuyphu]

It looks like, an Taiwanese official Declaration of independence is coming soon.

[henriquemonte]

It seems that China understands the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to take over Taiwan, as the US and its allies seem to be very involved in this conflict in Eastern Europe.
However, China may find that this reading of this situation is wrong in the worst way.

[fairdinkum]

I think Joe Biden said exactly what China needs to hear!

We need to firmly support Taiwan, even if means getting militarily involved!

[saiphaneeshk.h.]

Yeah I'm sure everyone will stand with them giving a round of applause. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[lyndonwatson]

Like Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth”.