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already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether ....
Protected. it s part of making sure putin isn t able to do what he wants to do, which is basically wipe ukraine off the map. he s not succeeding today but he has not changed in terms of that being his objective. leshe s not ending the effor exactly. what do you take from president biden s statement saying that he would intervene military in taijuan if china would invade? two things. first of all, the biggest thing we want to do is detour china from using a military option. that s always in our position. one china, work it out but can t work it out through violence. it between china and taijuan to figure that out. we re also going to support taijuan, which we have. we ve sold them weapons. we ve provided some training to them over the years. long standing policy to try to discourage china from using that military option. there s a lot of different things we can do there. it doesn t sound like biden said that today? he didn t. he moved away from strategic ambiguity without qu ....
Month ago, they met in person to talk about aid to ukraine, military weapons to ukraine and what alliance could do to support the war defense against russian aggression. now a virtual meeting of 44 countries to carry it one step further. they began by talking about the situation on the ground and as for taijuan, fair to say they may well get questions about president biden s statement he would use the u.s. military if china invades taijuan because up until today in that statement u.s. policy and military policy has been a sort of strategic ambiguity never saying exactly what the u.s. military would do if china invites taijuan. the president changing that up and we ll see what both pentagon leaders have to say about it. kate? barbara, great to see you, thank you for that. appreciate it. joining me for more is adam ....
Already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether or not the ....
Very soon top military leaders will be holding a press conference at the pentagon. lloyd austin and general mark milley will be briefing reporters on the war in ukraine. they may also of course face some questions about president biden s statement that he would use military, u.s. military to defend taijuan if china invades. let s go to the pentagon. barbara starr is standing by. barbara, what are you hearing there? reporter: kate, good morning. austin and milley rarely come out to talk to the news media so it s a big deal that they will have a press conference today on camera an hour from now. why are they doing it today? well, they have had a three they just finished a three-hour virtual meeting with military and defense representatives from 44 countries to talk about the situation in ukraine. you ll remember, just about a ....