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HONG KONG —President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States will protect Taiwan if China ever attacks the democratically governed island, and the White House temporarily backtracked as analysts tried to figure out whether Biden might have signaled a replacement in Washington policy. of “strategic ambiguity” about the role the United States would play in the event of a military confrontation between China and Taiwan. “Yes, we have a commitment,” the president said after being asked on a CNN in the Baltimore City, Maryland, corridor whether the United States would protect Taiwan from an attack through China. “China, Russia...
