{"id":48611,"date":"2022-09-19T11:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T02:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/joe-biden-repeats-claim-that-us-forces-would-defend-taiwan-if-china-attacked"},"modified":"2022-09-19T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:26:43","slug":"joe-biden-repeats-claim-that-us-forces-would-defend-taiwan-if-china-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48611","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden again says US forces would defend Taiwan from Chinese attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House confirms US policy has not changed after president\u2019s remarks on 60 Minutes show<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">China-Taiwan tensions \u2013 explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden has again said US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, in his most explicit statement so far on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in a CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/president-joe-biden-taiwan-60-minutes-2022-09-18\/\">60 Minutes interview<\/a> broadcast on Sunday whether US forces would defend the self-ruled island claimed by China, he replied: \u201cYes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/joe-biden-repeats-claim-that-us-forces-would-defend-taiwan-if-china-attacked\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House confirms US policy has not changed after president\u2019s remarks on 60 Minutes showChina-Taiwan tensions \u2013 explained in 30 secondsJoe Biden has again said US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, in his most explicit st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,939,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/48611","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48611\/revisions\/48627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}