{"id":48599,"date":"2022-05-23T11:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48599"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T22:07:56","slug":"biden-showing-little-strategic-ambiguity-when-it-comes-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48599","title":{"rendered":"Biden showing little strategic ambiguity when it comes to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For President Biden, there appears to be little strategic ambiguity in his stance on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If China invades,\u00a0Biden\u00a0said Monday, the U.S. will come to Taiwan\u2019s aid militarily. That statement from the president is far from the first time he\u2019s indicated he\u2019s willing to use military force against China to defend Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Far from a gaffe, Monday\u2019s remarks at a Tokyo press conference looked intentional, say some educated observers. And it has extra layers of geopolitical meaning after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine \u2014 something Beijing is watching closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For President Biden, there appears to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48600,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48599\/revisions\/48600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}