CBS News' nancycordes asked President Biden during a news conference Monday in Japan whether the U.S. would impose quarantines over confirmed monkeypox cases. 'No, I don't think so,' Biden said, later adding that 'people should be careful.'
President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, in one of the most forceful and overt statements in support of Taiwan in decades.Russia's invasion of UkraineSpeaking at a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Mr. Biden said,"That's the commitment we made."
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to eliminate"the identity of Ukraine" since he"can't occupy it." He acknowledged that the American economy has"problems" but said it was better positioned than other countries.
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