Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre The White House 20220803

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There was no guarantee given to Biden by China, no matter what promise Xi had made to Pelosi.

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre    The White House 20220803

Q    Thanks, Karine.  A couple questions about Taiwan. First off, has the President spoken to Speaker Pelosi since she left Taiwan?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  So, as you know, she — she’s traveling, I believe, to Japan and South Korea.  I can’t remember which one is first.  So she’s on her travels.  I don’t have a call to read out to you at this time.  But they have a relationship.  They talk pretty regularly.  I don’t have anything, again, to — specifically to read out at this time.

Q    The G7 just expressed concerns about China’s threatening behavior in the Taiwan Strait.  Those were their words.  Does this letter come with any consequences if China continues that behavior?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  So let me just reiterate what we have been saying from the podium for many days now.  You also heard this directly from our National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, who was on many of your networks yesterday saying that the Speaker has the right to make a decision on where she chooses to travel.  We provide the assistance and the — kind of, the geopolitical briefing and, kind of, what — what we believe the national security reasons are for — or lay that out for her as she makes the decision.
She is — we do not decide where she goes.  She makes that decision.  As you know, the President was a senator for 36 years.  He understands that particular fact.  So that’s number one.
It is — it is — does not change at all our lan- — longstanding policy, U.S policy, the — that we have had.  We have made that very clear.  The trip does not change that.
There is a precedent for a Speaker — we’ve talked about this in here — to travel to Taiwan.  And so, none of that changes.
And so, you know, there’s no reason for Beijing to turn this visit, you know, which is consistent with our policy, into some sort of crisis or to use it as a pretext to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait, as you just asked, Nancy.
But again, it doesn’t change anything.  The President spoke to President Xi just last week.  They had — that was their fifth conversation.  They continue to have an open dialogue.  That’s what we have been wanting with China.
Again, there is no reason to see any change.  It continues to be consistent.

 

 

Q    Okay.  And then, on Taiwan, has the Ronald Reagan Carrier Group left the east coast of Taiwan, or is it still there?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I would have to get back to you on that.

Q    Can you characterize any communications that you guys have had with the Taiwan military as they get ready for these PLA drills?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I don’t have — I don’t have more to share on that.

Q    Thank you.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Go ahead.  Go ahead, Peter.

Q    Thanks, Karine.  How come Republicans seem more jazzed about Speaker Pelosi’s trip than the President?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  You’re going to have to ask Republicans.  “Jazzed”?

Q    Well, yeah.  I mean —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Do they have jazz hands, Peter?

Q    Do I have jazz hands?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  (Laughs.)  Do they have jazz hands?

Q    Do they?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  You said “jazzed” — that they’re feeling “jazzed.”

Q    We can have our Hill team check.  (Laughter.)  But Mitch McConnell said, “I think it’s important for the Speaker to go to Taiwan.”  Lindsey Graham said the idea of her going “is a good thing.”  Chuck Grassley, “I’m sure glad that she went.”  Is President Biden just worried about hurting Xi’s feelings?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I — so you’re saying, because they said that, then we’re not “jazzed”?

Q    Yeah.  Absolutely.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  (Laughs.)  We’ve been very clear — we’ve been very clear for, gosh, the past week or so, that the Speaker has the right to go to Taiwan.  We have said that.

Q    She has a right.  Yes, you’ve been clear that she has a right to go, but why is it so hard for the President just to say, “She’s a brave trailblazer, and I think it’s great that she went,” like so many others on —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I think the President thinks that Speaker Pelosi is a great trailblazer.  Look, I —

Q    Does he think that it was good that she went?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Here’s the thing: What we are saying is that we cannot dictate and we will not dictate where members of Congress go.  Members of Congress — wait, let me —

Q    Totally get that, but when —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Let me — let me finish.

Q    — when they go, he doesn’t dictate if they go.  Now he can say if he thinks it was good or not.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I mean, that’s not how it works.  That is not how it works here.  It really isn’t.  Members of Congress have —

Q    Can you at least say —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  — have the right to travel wherever they chose.  Our part of this is to make sure we give them a thorough and complete briefing when it comes to the geopolitics of the region or the state, or when it comes to national security.  That is our part in this.

Q    Now that Taiwan is effectively encircled by the Chinese military doing these drills, does the President think that the trip was worth the trouble?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I’ll — look, I already said this, and I’ll just repeat it to you: There’s no reason for Beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding U.S. policy, into some sort of crisis.  There is no reason to do that.

We have been very clear there’s no change in our One China policy, which is guided by the Tai- — the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979.  That has not changed.

And so, look, the United States will not seek and does not want a crisis here.  But we are prepared to manage what Beijing chooses to do.

Q    And last one about that.  There’s a Chinese official who says the U.S. must “pay the price” for its own mistake, and “We mean what we say.”  When the Chinese threaten the U.S., does the President take them seriously?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Again, the United States will not seek and does not want a crisis.  We are prepared to manage what Beijing chooses to do.  Nothing has changed when it comes to our policies.  This was a precedent — this was precedent for the Speaker to travel to Taiwan.  That is nothing new.  And it changes absolutely nothing when it comes to our One China policy.

I’m going to go to the back.  Go ahead.

Q    I have a Taiwan question, and also an Afghanistan question.  Just following up on Peter’s question, with the PLA encircling Taiwan, does the White House have a counterstrategy?  Do you have plans to counter this?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I’m not — I’m not going to lay out or go — lay out any of our, you know — any of our intelligence or national security information from here.

Q    How about the punitive economic and cyber measures that Beijing is imposing on Taipei?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I missed the first part.

Q    I said: How about the punitive economic and cyber measures that Beijing has imposed on Taipei?  Is the — is the U.S. prepared to help Taiwan there?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Again, I’m not going to go further with what I just said.  There is no reason for — for Beijing to use this trip, which is a precedented trip, as a pretext for a crisis.

This is — there’s — there is — there’s no change to our policies, I’ve said, as many of my colleagues have said from here and also on many of your networks and in some of your publications.  Nothing has changed here.