US President Joe Biden has unusually and sharply said that his country will act militarily to defend Taiwan in case China decides to invade independent territory, warning Beijing that it is "flirting with danger" when it threatens Taipei.
"We agree with the one China policy, and we sign it, but the idea that Taiwan can be taken by force is simply not acceptable to us," the president said today (Monday) during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House.
Biden exceptionally pledged that his country would militarily side with Taipei in case he was attacked, and in response to reporters' questions he said that "military defense of Taiwan is a commitment we have made. We will agree to use force if China does attack."
Chinese President Xi Jingping, in 2021,
In the past two years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has threatened several times that his country will use force on the means at its disposal to bring Taiwan under its control, including a military option.
Chinese Air Force fighter jets have made dozens of infiltrations, including of their nuclear bomber, into Taiwan's airspace, and the country's authorities have warned that Chinese military action is a real possibility.
Taiwan has ruled democratically separately from China since the rise of the Communist Party to China in the late 1940s, after China's nationalist rule, Changjiak, fled with its forces from the mainland to the island and established separate rule.
Beijing has never relinquished power on the island.
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