"He is just too old and likes to bluff, doesn't know what he is talking about," tweeted China Daily's Chen Weihua on Friday, referring to President Joe Biden.
"Biden has been anything but clear," ABC News wrote about the President's intentions toward Taiwan.
If there is anything unclear, it is the situation after the clarifications from Biden administration officials: Press Secretary Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson Ned Price, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
All of them walked back Biden's statement to CNN. "Well, there has been no shift," Psaki told reporters on Friday.
Biden's definitive statement was a stark departure from America's decades-old policy of "Strategic ambiguity," the policy of telling neither Beijing nor Taipei what the U.S. would do in the case of imminent conflict.
Beijing may wonder-as should Americans and others-if Biden is still in charge.
The walk-back statements could lead Beijing to believe there are disagreements inside the Biden administration and in a crisis, some officials would try to override the President to block an American defense of Taiwan.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/gordon-chang-joe-bidens-taiwan-policy-is-now-a-total-disaster/
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