Joe Biden says the United States will militarily defend Taiwan in case of Chinese invasion,

monkeypox freaks out the world.

And stocks continue to edge into bare market territory as the administration desperately flails.

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So we have recession.

Now we have monkey pox.

I didn't have that one on the bingo card.

And we have possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

So this morning's breaking news that the president of the United States had gone out on a limb.

And he had said that the United States would militarily defend Taiwan if Taiwan was invaded.

This was what the president of the United States said in a press conference.

And there are some good things about this.

And there's some bad things about this.

The bad thing about this is that it is utterly unclear whether this is in fact a case. Here is Joe Biden saying it. Are you willing

to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that? Yes. You are. That's the

commitment we made. And my expectation is it will not happen.

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