This has become routine: Lyin' Biden makes some glaringly false statement about US policy and his own staff has to scramble to "explain" (refute) it.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/why-biden-s-taiwan-china-comments-are-troubling-n1295641
Yet the fool was highly critical of George Bush when made the SAME misstatement:
"Words matter, in diplomacy and in law." https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/05/02/not-so-deft-on-taiwan/2adf3075-ee98-4e70-9be0-5459ce1edd5d/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30

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