President jobidon three times has said, the us. Come and defend tiwan. And each time his staff has walked back. Would the us? Get involved if trina and tian went to war? What do we know about this? The us. Has ait a policy of strategic ambiguity. So we do not say whether or not we will defendti even though we've given billions of dollars to fertian to defend itself. You tian, defend yourself. Wi'll hope you do so. It would be as close to war worh three, if not wal worth it.
China didn’t want Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan. Neither did the White House. Politico’s Alex Ward explains why she went anyway.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Jon Ehrens, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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