Joe Biden vows US will defend Taiwan if China invades - The Times

The United States would defend Taiwan militarily against a Chinese invasion, President Biden has said, setting out a clear challenge to Beijing during his first visit to East Asia as president.

Biden said in Tokyo that one of the reasons President Putin must be made to “pay a dear price” for invading Ukraine was to discourage China from trying to seize the independent island of Taiwan.

Asked whether the US would defend Taiwan militarily, in a way that it has declined to do for Ukraine, Biden told a press conference: “Yes — that’s the commitment we made.

Defence co-operation had become more important, Biden said. Japan is planning to increase its defence spending

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“We agree with the ‘one China’ policy. We signed onto it and all the attendant agreements made from there. But the idea that it could be taken by

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