President Joe Biden‘s first national security strategy guide makes clear his longstanding commitment to supporting Taiwan as an advanced democracy and a key economic and security partner of the United States.
The White House released Joe Biden’s first national security strategy guide for his presidency three days ago, which points out that China is the only competitor that can combine economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to challenge the United States. The United States must secure its global leadership position and not allow China to take its place and set a new international agenda.
When China Threatens Interests and Values, the U.S. Will Respond Head-On to Beijing‘s Challenge
Biden’s national security strategy guide emphasizes that democracy is a major American asset. It will respond to Beijing’s challenge when its actions directly threaten interests and values. The U.S. will confront unfair and illegal trade practices, economic practices that harm U.S. workers through cyber theft and coercion, undermine advanced and emerging technologies, and attempt to undermine U.S. strategic advantage and national competitiveness.
The Biden Administration has emphasized that it will secure critical national security technologies and medical supply chains and continue to defend access to the global sphere, including freedom of navigation and overflight under international law. The United States will hold its diplomatic and military steady to defend its allies. It will also support China’s neighbors and business partners in defending the right to independent political choice, free from coercion or foreign influence.
Call Taiwan an “advanced democracy” and a “key economic and security partner.”
Biden’s national security strategy guidance also mentions that the United States will support Taiwan as an advanced democracy and a key economic and security partner of the United States, a longstanding commitment. The United States will also ensure that U.S. companies do not have to sacrifice American values when doing business in China. The United States will also defend democracy, human rights, and human dignity, including Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet. On these issues, the United States will work to reach consensus with like-minded countries.
Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesman Ou Jiang’an responded at a regular press conference on April 4, saying that the Ministry sincerely welcomes and appreciates Biden’s National Security Strategy Guide, which expresses support for Taiwan.
The Biden administration has shown strong support for Taiwan since taking office, and has repeatedly reaffirmed its “rock-solid” commitment to Taiwan’s security, Ou said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to work closely with the Biden Administration to strengthen the close global partnership based on the longstanding friendship between Taiwan and the United States.
Former KMT legislator Lin Yu-fang said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that Biden’s style is moderate, solving problems through dialogue and negotiation, and will not use sharp and harsh words to attack his opponents.
The former Blue Committee member: deliberately vague
The government’s policy is to ensure that the government will continue to provide the necessary equipment for the future. In particular, there is no mention of Taiwan’s security and if Taiwan’s security is attacked the U.S. must come to its assistance.”
Lin Yu-fang believes that Taiwan itself should be careful that the highest guiding principle of Taiwan’s strategy should be to avoid war and armed conflict with mainland China in the Taiwan Strait, and that successive U.S. presidents have never pledged to send U.S. troops to assist in defense if Taiwan is attacked by mainland China.
Lin Yu-fang said: “This strategic guide confirms that the U.S. strategy in the Taiwan Strait is still basically a vague strategy, and for Taiwan, the U.S. guarantee still has its vague side, its deliberate vagueness, and even a certain degree of hollow assurance, which is something Taiwan should be careful about. It is obviously very important for Taiwan to use political means and exchanges and dialogues so that the hostility between the two sides can be lowered.”
Professor Emeritus Ding Shufan of National Chengchi University, in an interview with Radio Free Asia, explained that Biden’s first national security strategy guide seems to be written very lightly, basically, if we go by Obama’s “One China” policy, the U.S. definition is the Taiwan Relations Act, the three communiqués and the six guarantees. Nothing has changed, but the substance may not be quite the same.
Biden’s policy on Taiwan = Obama plus Trump average
Ding Shufan said: “I must be frank, the Obama era is actually quite negligent of Taiwan, when the so-called ‘U.S. rebalancing’ policy focused on Southeast Asia, not on Taiwan. Taiwan is the issue of the credibility of the United States leadership in the Asia-Pacific region, that is, no matter what China does, the United States must respond, otherwise the credibility of the United States will collapse overnight, I must speak frankly.”
However, Ding Shufan also believes that the level of high-level visits between the U.S. and Taiwan should not be higher than during the Trump Administration. As for the Biden administration, will it be like Trump’s term of office to reach eleven arms sales to Taiwan, including many new, advanced, and even offensive weapons, Ding Shufan believes that the specific operation must be observed, especially China’s military threat to Taiwan has become more and more diverse, to Taiwan’s national army strategic guidance ‘heavy layer of deterrence’ principle, how to accurately guide, source of these weapons and equipment needed to combat Taiwan, how the Biden administration will handle It is still unclear.
Ding Shufan’s study of Biden’s policy toward Taiwan should return to the Obama plus Trump period. “I usually divide Obama and Trump by two, which is probably equal to Biden.”
The special rules Biden with the U.S. and Taiwan to break through the official communication restrictions and another example
In addition, Acting U.S. Ambassador to Japan Yang Zhou said on Twitter (Twitter) on the 4th in English and Japanese that he invited Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan representative Hsieh Chang-ting to the ambassador’s residence this week for an exchange to discuss common priorities on a wide range of issues such as regional stability, economic prosperity, and enhanced personnel exchanges.
This is the first Time since the breakup of diplomatic relations between Taiwan and the U.S. in 1979 that a U.S. official has invited Taiwan’s representative in Japan to the residence for an exchange, and is another example of Biden’s policy of continuing Trump’s “U.S.-Taiwan breakthrough in self-imposed restrictions on official contacts.
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