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Is Taiwan Getting a Lifeline?
After a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, Biden says Taiwan is not in ‘imminent’ danger of invasion.
“Biden does not believe China has ‘imminent’ plans to invade Taiwan,” reported The Guardian today.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping met in Bali on Monday at the G20 summit, where the two discussed global events, trade, and Taiwan.
“I made it clear that our policy on Taiwan has not changed at all,” President Biden said of his meeting with Xi Jinping. “It’s the same exact position we have always had. I made it clear that I want to see cross-strait issues peacefully resolved so that it never has to come to that. I’m convinced that he understood exactly what I was saying, and I understood what he was saying.”
“We oppose unilateral changes in the status quo by either side and we are committed to maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” Biden told reporters.
It’s good news for anyone who has been nervously watching the world edge closer to global conflict over the past year.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a surprise to world leaders, but it shouldn’t have been. Before marching on Kyiv, Putin’s government had been applying military pressure to Ukraine for over a decade.