White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Oct. 22 “there has been no shift” in Washington’s stance toward Taiwan after President Joe Biden indicated the United States had a “commitment” to defend the self-ruled island if Beijing were to attack.
On Thursday evening , Biden told a CNN town hall event that the United States was committed to protecting Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, stirring questions about whether Washington was moving away from its longstanding policy of “strategic ambiguity.”