President Biden tells Southeast Asian nations the U.S. would stand with them in defending freedom of the seas and democracy and called China's actions toward Taiwan 'coercive' and a threat to peace and stability.
Speaking at a virtual East Asia Summit attended by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Biden said Washington would start talks with partners in the Indo-Pacific about developing a regional economic framework, something critics say his regional strategy has lacked.
Southeast Asia has become a strategic battleground between the United States and China, which controls most of the South China Sea, and Beijing hason fiercely democratic Taiwan, a self-ruled island Beijing considers its own. Biden reiterated that the United States had a"rock-solid" commitment to Taiwan."We are deeply concerned by China's coercive ... actions," Biden said, charging that they"threaten regional peace and stability."Myanmar was represented by an empty box after the leader of the military-ruled nation was excluded from the summit.
Biden last week said the United States, which is obliged by a 1979 law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, would come to Taiwan's defense if it was attacked by China. Those comments caused a stir because they appeared to depart from a long-held U.S. policy of"strategic ambiguity" as to how Washington would respond to such a scenario.
The White House said Biden was not signaling a change in U.S. policy toward Taiwan, and some analysts dismissed his comments as a gaffe.staged repeated air missionsChina expressed displeasure at Biden's comments last week, urging Washington"not to send the wrong signals to the forces of Taiwan independence, to avoid seriously harming Sino-U.S. ties and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
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