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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Biden Sows Confusion On Taiwan

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

President Biden creates confusion over the U.S. stance on Taiwan after vowing the U.S. military would respond if China invades. Now, Beijing is accusing him of playing with fire as the White House tries to walk back the comments. Also tonight, 35 tons of baby formula land in the U.S. from overseas amid the dire shortage that has put some infants in the hospital. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now, President Biden creates confusion over the US stance on Taiwan after

0:09.1

avowing a US military response if China invades.

0:13.5

Beijing is accusing him of playing with fire

0:16.5

as the White House attempts some damage control

0:19.1

and denies any change in policy.

0:21.6

Also tonight, 35 tons of baby formula land here in the United States

0:26.5

from overseas amid the dire shortage that has put some infants in the hospital. We'll

0:31.8

break down who will benefit from this urgent

0:34.4

shipment and how much more is needed to ease the crisis. And the Trump versus

0:39.2

Pence feud over the 2020 election is escalating tonight on this the eve of the Georgia primary.

0:45.8

Trump is lashing out at his former Vice President calling him, quote,

0:50.0

desperate as they stumped for rival candidates in a Georgia showdown.

0:55.0

Penn speaks out on the campaign trail this hour.

0:58.0

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States

1:01.0

and around the world.

1:02.0

I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the United States and around the world.

1:02.8

I'm Wolf Blitzer.

1:04.0

You're in the situation room.

1:05.4

We begin with the fallout after President Biden's surprising stance on a potential Chinese

1:17.1

invasion of Taiwan. His talk of a U.S. military response is sewing new uncertainty about his policy and

1:25.0

raising serious tensions with China.

1:28.1

CNN's Chief White House correspondent Caitlin Collins is in Tokyo for us.

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