Fox host Varney called U.S. President Biden’s statement on Taiwan a fiasco
U.S. President Joe Biden is constantly haunted by embarrassments, and another fiasco was his stance on defending Taiwan, which he had to change, TV host Stuart Varney said on Fox Business Channel.
Earlier, at a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, the US president said that the United States was ready to defend Taiwan in case of China’s invasion. As the White House later clarified, Biden was referring to the supply of weapons for the self-defense of the island.
Varney said that the current US leader was not the “dynamic and straightforward” president that “foreign friends” of the United States needed. At the same time, he wondered how Washington’s allies perceive Biden’s embarrassments.
“The Taiwan fiasco is just a classic case in point. Biden said the policy had changed, the White House bounced back and announced that nothing had changed. Today, the president sort of agrees with that denial and says the policy hasn’t changed,” the TV host pointed out.
According to him, weakness and indecision have become the features of the Biden presidency. Thus, he recalled the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the baby food crisis in the U.S., as well as the sharp rise in gasoline prices.
“Something else needs to be said. The president’s behavior does not inspire confidence. He is physically weak. He is forgetful and confused. His handlers get nervous every time he starts to improvise. They have kept him out of the media. He hasn’t had a face-to-face interview in 104 days. Nobody wants to talk about it,” Varney stressed.
The TV host added that the U.S. is “torn by inflation,” and there is an instinctive desire to rally around the president, but he’s hindering that greatly. “And there are still two and a half years to go,” he summarized.