US President Joe Biden said on Monday that China was “playing with fire” over Taiwan and stressed that the United States would “help defend Taiwan against any Chinese aggression.”
“If China invades Taiwan, the United States will respond militarily,” Biden said. “This is a commitment we have made.”
Biden was speaking during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Japan. The second phase of his trip was aimed at strengthening US leadership in Asia by countering growing Chinese influence and the North Korean nuclear threat.
During his visit to South Korea, Biden spoke of “the global rivalry between democracies and authoritarian regimes” and said the Asia-Pacific region was “a major battleground.”
For its part, China announced on Sunday through its foreign minister that “US diplomatic strategy in Asia is doomed to failure,” Xinhua reported.
Wang Yi: The US “India-Pacific Strategy” is essentially a strategy of divisiveness, provoking confrontation and undermining peace, and no matter how complicated or hidden, it will inevitably fail. said.
According to AFP, Wang stressed that the United States is working to “form small blocs in the name of freedom and openness,” noting that its goal is a “China axis.”
“The dangerous thing is that the United States is playing with the Taiwan card and the South China Sea card to create chaos in the region,” he said.
Source: Lebanon Debate
