Biden Sows Confusion By Claiming He Spoke To President Xi About The “Taiwan Agreement” (No Such Agreement)

• Biden Sows Confusion By Claiming He Spoke To President Xi About The “Taiwan Agreement”
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Amid what Taiwan’s defense minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has just described as the worst tensions with China in 40 years following four days of consecutive PLA jet incursions into contested airspace near Taiwan, President Biden apparently sought to defuse tensions in a prior call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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  Last month we warned that, for the people of Taiwan, it is officially “time to worry” about the prospect of an invasion, or another act of aggression, by Beijing to try and bring the independently governed island under the PROC’s control – one of President Xi’s loftiest geopolitical objectives as he prepares for an unprecedented third term as China’s paramount leader. President Xi has been very clear with his rhetoric: Taiwan belongs to China (just like Hong Kong), and any foreign power that would meddle in the relationship (as the US is obligated to do, by treaty) could face the full military wrath of China.
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  As a series of increasingly aggressive military drills ratchets up tensions between Beijing and Taipei, President Biden – preoccupied with the battle at home over his domestic agenda – threw reporters for a loop late Tuesday when he told them after a long day of stumping behind the domestic agenda that he had spoken to President Xi about Taiwan and that they had agreed to abide by the “Taiwan agreement”.
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  “I’ve spoken with Xi about Taiwan. We agree…we’ll abide by the Taiwan agreement,” he said. “We made it clear that I don’t think he should be doing anything other than abiding by the agreement.”
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  Reuters’ Vincent Lee quickly pointed out that Biden appeared to be referencing a conversation from more than a month ago (not a recent call, as he seemed to imply) while also pointing out that there is no “Taiwan Agreement”.
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