President Joe Biden It said on Tuesday that the United States would not support Taiwan’s independence from China.
The news was released a day after Biden reiterated this position during a meeting with the Chinese president. Xi Jinping.
The president spoke to reporters in New Hampshire. He is pushing for the recently signed 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. The president said that the US policy on Taiwan “has not changed.”
“Nothing happened. We will not change our policies at all,” Biden told reporters. When asked to clarify the US position on the Taiwan issue, the president added that his government does not support independence.
“I said they must decide,’they’, Taiwan. Not us. We don’t encourage independence, we encourage them to do exactly what the Taiwan Act requires,” Biden continued. “This is what we are doing. Let them make up their minds. Period.”
“It is independent. It makes its own decisions,” the president added.
Biden told the media that he and Xi Jinping had a 3 1/2 hour conversation on various issues and made it clear to the Chinese leader, “[the United States is] Will obey the rules of the road. “
In another conversation with reporters, a senior White House official also supported the non-independent position. In addition, the content read by the Biden-Xi meeting stated that the United States “strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.”
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period CNN In October, Biden stated at the city hall that if Taiwan is attacked, the United States will provide assistance to Taiwan, which violates previous practices.
The president seems to be referring to legislation requiring weapons and weapons to be provided to Taiwan in the event of an attack by China, but he did not promise to send soldiers to Taiwan.
Nevertheless, it still Report In early October, secret American soldiers were stationed on the island, where they helped train Taiwanese soldiers to resist a potential Chinese invasion.
This has led to increased tensions between the United States and China, especially after the discovery of multiple Chinese military aircraft near the coast of Taiwan. According to reports, these tensions were an important part of the discussions between Biden and Xi Jinping on Monday.
It remains to be seen how these tensions will develop, but the president did call the meeting “active.” According to reports, he assured Xi that the United States will “stay outside of its territorial waters for the time being,” but “will not be frightened.”
When talking about the U.S. travel model through the South China Sea, Biden said: “We have discussed this issue… There is no argument, it’s just a fact.”
The United States and Taiwan have maintained important informal relations for a long time, and the island country continues to be an important trading partner of the United States
Nevertheless, the United States has not officially recognized Taiwan as a sovereign country since 1979. That year, the Carter administration passed legislation calling China a single country and declared that “there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of China.”
Since then, this “one China” policy has been the position of successive presidential administrations, although critics have long advocated that the United States change its stand on Taiwan’s independence.
Although the two parties do not have formal diplomatic relations, Taiwan does have a de facto embassy building in Washington, DC, which is the host of various negotiations.
Weekly newspaper The White House has been contacted for comments.
