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The US will defend Taiwan in the event of an armed conflict with mainland China, declared this Thursday the North American president Joe Biden during an event organized by CNN. “Yes, we are committed to doing that,” Biden said when answering the question of whether the US would come to the defense of the island if it were attacked by Beijing. Subsequently, a White House spokesman stressed that Biden’s statements do not represent no change in ‘strategic ambiguity’ policy from Washington to Taipei, which implies the recognition of Beijing as the only legitimate government of China, on the one hand,...