Biden press conference gaffes9/2/2023 President Biden leaned heavily on his notes Tuesday while welcoming Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the Oval Office. The 80-year-old president then described some of his administration’s initiatives, including supporting an Israeli-Lebanese maritime boundary deal and backing Saudi and Omani decisions to allow Israeli flights over their territory.īiden struggled to pronounce the cities of Aqaba, Jordan, and Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - where Israeli and Palestinian leaders recently met with the involvement of the US and Middle Eastern governments. And a lot of hard work - we’ve got a lot more to do, but there’s progress.” “And together working to bring more security and integration to the Middle East. “This is a friendship, I believe, that is just simply unbreakable - unbreakable,” said Biden, who read from notecards on his lap rather than looking Herzog in the face for much of his roughly one minute of public remarks before journalists were removed from the room. WASHINGTON - President Biden leaned heavily on his notes Tuesday while welcoming Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the Oval Office - as left-wing Democrats lined up to boycott Herzog’s scheduled speech at the Capitol in protest of the Jewish state’s policies toward Palestinians. Israel’s judicial reform of its courts’ unchecked power is not as radical as activists would have you believe Why Israel was never so democratic in the first placeīiden demands ‘consensus’ from Israel even as he flouts it himself would not recognize Taiwan as an independent country, but he was also sending a pretty clear message: Don’t think about invading.Biden hurt America AND Israel in bashing Bibi’s judicial reforms “I think what Biden did today was clarify, rather than make a mistake,” said NPR’s Mara Liasson on Monday. The Times writes that such a show of strength could be buoyed by Russia’s floundering invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s united and harsh response. troops while still signaling to Beijing that an invasion into Taiwan could be costly and drawn out. Biden’s willingness to use military force is vague enough to preclude the involvement of U.S.officials think strategic ambiguity’s effectiveness may be waning, especially since Chinese President Xi Jinping has been more aggressive in promoting reunification with Taiwan. According to The New York Times, some U.S.Maintaining the status quo: Still, the fact that the White House has so regularly pushed back against supposed policy change supports the idea that the president is being strategically less ambiguous, but still toeing the line of the “One China” policy. foreign policy is changing, according to The Washington Post. That this is the third time Biden has made similar comments about Taiwan provides further evidence that U.S.Offering military support to Taiwan “in essence is poking China,” writes Vox, and Biden’s remarks could lead to the “Chinese government drawing the worst-case conclusions” about U.S.-Taiwan relations. has no obligation to intervene militarily to defend Taiwan, despite Biden saying on Monday, “That’s the commitment we made.” doesn’t officially recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation, but sells weapons to the independent island to defend itself from China. Under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, the U.S. Poking the bear: The United States has long walked a fine line when it comes to Taiwan.
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