Taipei Says Joe Biden Backs Taiwan As Blinken Warns China Invasion Grievous Mistake
On 1/20/21 at 6:01 AM EST
The incoming administration of Joe Biden backs Taiwan. So says the country s foreign ministry, just hours after the president-elect s pick for secretary of state warned that a Chinese invasion of the island would be a grievous mistake.
State Department veteran Antony Blinken, 58, made the remarks on Tuesday as members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations quizzed him about the immediate future of American foreign policy under Biden.
Asked by several senators about Beijing s emergence as a security threat this past decade, Blinken said President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China, although he disagreed with his methods. He also suggested areas where Washington and Beijing could cooperate.