President Joe Biden expressed that either he or the military may be opposed to a reported trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Beijing views as its own.
“Well, I—I think that—the military thinks [that] it’s not a good idea right now, but I don’t know what the status of it is,” Biden said of the trip after arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland July 20.
The parsing of the sentence made it unclear whether Biden himself believed it was a bad idea for Pelosi to visit Taiwan based on military intelligence, or if he was merely repeating warnings given to him by military leadership….