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caudaceus

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Strategic ambiguity is about under what conditions the US would intervene in a war over Taiwan, not a refusal to answer if it would intervene.
The idea that in today’s context the US would defend Taiwan isn’t a change to the policy. Strategic ambiguity has been about giving the US greater freedom of action. How US really acts in a crisis depends on multiple things.
So shifting from strategic ambiguity to ambiguity of strategy.
 

Dante80

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Biden said the quiet part out loud, and now everyone is scrambling to damage control.

I mean, he has a career choke full of diplomatic gaffes like this..




ps: Trump though proclaiming "just got a phone call from the president of Taiwan!" is still top notch comedy.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
Take this with a grain of salt. The poster says "the president's thinking" and we all know that there is no process that qualifies as thinking that still goes on in Biden's skull. He's probably constantly confused between Taiwan and Thailand, and whenever people talk about military support, he believes they're talking about Ukraine... for a few seconds... before he drifts off to other topics in his mind, then to sleep.
 

Coalescence

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Take this with a grain of salt. The poster says "the president's thinking" and we all know that there is no process that qualifies as thinking that still goes on in Biden's skull. He's probably constantly confused between Taiwan and Thailand, and whenever people talk about military support, he believes they're talking about Ukraine... for a few seconds... before he drifts off to other topics in his mind, then to sleep.
These are the same "foreign policy" idiots who now come out of the woodworks to praise their demented president for his "strategic genius" in pursuing "strategic ambiguity" which really amounts to nothing, since China is already planning for the possibility of US intervening in the first place. I think If an armed reunification were to happen, both sides will set their rules of engagement and threaten to use nukes or other military action if it touches their redline. Nothing is achieved except some laughs when they retract their statement, making them look weak.
 

BoraTas

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It is a very very cheap publicity stunt. Since Russia and China would block it anyway there are no ways Japan can become a UNSC permanent member. So the US doesn't have to think about the effects of Japan becoming a UNSC permanent member.

And isn't Japan a loser of WW2 and has no official armed forces? How can it be a UNSC perma member? India makes a lot more sense.
 
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