BEIJING – In August 2021, President Joe Biden – while reassuring allies that the United States would come to their aid in the event of an attack – gave the first hint that the country could be dispensing with a decades-long policy on Taiwan.
Washington would respond if there was an attack on a member of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military alliance in Europe, he told ABC News, adding that Washington would do the “same with Japan, same with South Korea, (and) same with Taiwan”.
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