White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan said US President @JoeBiden was responding to a hypothetical question when he said the US would send troops to defend #Taiwan in the event of an "unprecedented attack." edition.cnn.com/2022/09/20/pol…
“When the President of the United States wants to announce a policy change, he will do so. He has not done so.”
Sullivan reiterated that the White House continues to stand behind the “One China” policy and said that Biden has “reiterated those basic commitments on every occasion that he’s talked about in Taiwan – ...
... including in this interview where he specifically and emphatically and unequivocally reinforced and reiterated the One China policy.”
“He was asked a question – a hypothetical question in this interview. He was asked a very similar question back in Tokyo in May,” Sullivan said on Tuesday.
“He gave a similar answer in Tokyo in May that he gave to the ’60 Minutes’ interview. After that answer in Tokyo, someone said specifically to him, ‘Have you just announced a major policy change?’
And he said ‘No, I have not.’ I have answered a hypothetical question. I have not announced a policy change.’”
Asked by Mattingly if Biden is delivering an explicit message to China by answering a hypothetical question on the matter, Sullivan said, “The President is a direct and straightforward person. He answered a hypothetical.”
Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine told CNN that while US policy has not changed, “We are going to help Taiwan defend itself, and that is our policy should it ever come to that and God willing, it never, it never does.
But you see what we’re doing in terms of providing military support to Taiwan and we’re going to continue it and they need to know that the US is going to be there should China make an unwise move against them.”
Republicans, however, are arguing that the inconsistency makes the US appear disorganized.

“It’s been our policy not to come out and say we will go to war,” said Senate Armed Services Ranking Member James Inhofe.
“And the President made the statement that I think his advisers, I believe, disagreed with, but he keeps repeating it over and over again.”

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