Biden’s remarks on ‘intervening militarily’ in Taiwan question not gaffe but signals hollowing out one-China policy
By stating the US would intervene militarily if the Chinese mainland takes the island of Taiwan by force, the Biden administration is taking a step further to hollow out the one-China policy, and Biden's remarks had led to China's strong opposition. Analysts warned that as the US and its spearheads, especially Japan, are using the Ukraine crisis to promote a cognitive battle to help with the de facto "independence" of the island of Taiwan, their schemes would encounter a stronger response from the Chinese mainland as the mainland makes no compromise on its core interests.
Like his remarks in October, what Biden said on Monday was inconsistent with the US government's traditional position on this issue which is usually described as "strategic ambiguity" and together with a string of moves, the Biden government is taking a step further to hollow out the one-China policy, said Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy of Tsinghua University in Beijing on Monday.
However, given the sensitivity of the Taiwan question, playing tactics through either words or actions will lead to no good result. Da said that "if the Biden administration insists on doing so, China-US relations would be like the Titanic hitting an iceberg - ending in crisis or worse."
Biden also said that deterring China from taking the island was one reason why Russia needs to "pay a dear price" for the conflict with Ukraine. He added that any effort by China to use force against Taiwan would make China "dislocate the entire region" and "be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine."
