Not the first time the White House has been forced to clean up something President Biden said.

The lead starts right now.

A White House walk back after President Biden says the U.S US would get involved militarily if China were

to ever attack US ally Taiwan.

And now China is responding.

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Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapp where We start with our world lead and top White House

advisor is caught off guard today by this response from President Biden when he was

asked during a news conference in Tokyo if the US would be willing to go further than it has with Ukraine to help Taiwan in the event of an invasion.

You didn't want to get involved in the Ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons.

Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?

Yes.

You are? That's the commitment we made. Now, President Biden didn't specify what he

meant by militarily, but the question defined the term as the US military

getting directly involved as it has not done in Ukraine to which Biden said

yes the White House rushed to clarify saying that the Biden administration would send weapons, not troops, to help Taiwan.

But it's a far cry from the delicacy and ambiguity we usually see from U.S. officials when they talk publicly about

China and Taiwan.

This is, we should note, the third time in recent months that President Biden has said the

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