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The Biden administration drew condemnation from China on Wednesday after the State Department announced they have invited Taiwan to its Summit for Democracy next month.

Compare the China policies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden and you’ll find many more similarities than differences. Four months after Biden’s inauguration, Kurt M. Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs at the National Security Council, declared that engagement, the approach American leaders have adopted toward China since the 1970s, had failed and that “the dominant paradigm is going to be competition.”

Both sides would incur massive losses if their rivalry intensifies, untempered by any sense of shared interests, and leads to war.

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Milley focused his remarks on US tensions with China over Taiwan, which have rapidly come to the fore under Biden.

Until last month, Washington had refused to confirm or deny if it would intervene militarily to defend the island from an attack.

The United States Congress urged U.S. President Joe Biden to pledge his support for Taiwan and commit to defending the island nation in the event of a Chinese-based attack. The situation comes as several Republican lawmakers have proposed a bill to bolster Taipei's defenses against Beijing.

Would Americans really be willing to risk war with China to prevent it from gobbling up Taiwan’s 24 million inhabitants?

EXCLUSIVE: The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is publicly pushing back on the Biden administration's assessment of the imminent threat China poses to the U.S. and its allies, saying that the Biden administration's weakness on foreign policy in wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal is "empowering and emboldening" America's enemies.

The chairman of the influential US House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday urged US President Joe Biden’s administration to be less ambiguous about what he called a US obligation to defend Taiwan from attack by China. “I think probably less ambiguity is better than more ambiguity,” US Representative Adam Schiff told the Aspen Security Forum, referring to a long-held policy of “strategic ambiguity” over US military intervention in the event of an attack. “We need to be much clearer ...

/ Reuters, WASHINGTONThe chairman of the influential US House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday urged US President Joe Biden’s administration to be less ambiguous about what he called a US obligation to defend Taiwan from attack by China.