{"id":38253,"date":"2021-10-22T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T04:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/22\/biden-suggests-us-would-defend-taiwan-against-china-forcing-fresh-white-house-clarification"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:52:02","slug":"joe-biden-suggests-us-would-defend-taiwan-against-china-forcing-fresh-white-house-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38253","title":{"rendered":"China warns against \u2018wrong signals\u2019 as Biden suggests US would defend Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administration insists there is no change of policy after president says US has \u2018a commitment\u2019 to defend island<\/p>\n<p>China has urged the US to \u201cavoid sending any wrong signals\u201d after President Joe Biden for a second time in three months said the US would come to Taiwan\u2019s defence if it was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>In both instances, the White House has clarified that there has been no change in US policy, which officially maintains so-called \u201cstrategic ambiguity\u201d regarding Taiwan. Still, Biden\u2019s words will rattle Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/22\/biden-suggests-us-would-defend-taiwan-against-china-forcing-fresh-white-house-clarification\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administration insists there is no change of policy after president says US has \u2018a commitment\u2019 to defend islandChina has urged the US to \u201cavoid sending any wrong signals\u201d after President Joe Biden for a second time in three months said the US would com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1854,50,939,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions\/38260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}