US President Joe Biden said Monday he did not believe China had “imminent” plans to invade Taiwan as he gave an upbeat assessment of talks with President Xi Jinping.
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“I made it clear that we want to see cross-strait issues peacefully resolved, and so it never has to come to that,” Biden said.But Biden himself has sowed confusion in the past by saying three times that the United States was prepared to use force if China invades Taiwan — an apparent shift from the longstanding US ambiguity on how it would respond.
China staged major military exercises in August, seen as a trial run for an invasion after a defiant visit of solidarity to Taipei by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, second in line to the White House.
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