uh let's bring in gordon chang who is a
senior fellow at the gatestone institute
the author of the coming collapse of
china and the great u.s china tech war
gordon i want to start with the latest
comments uh that you just heard the
president make when he was sitting next
to the prime minister of india what the
press was shouting at him is will you
push prime minister modi to take a
tougher stance on russia did you ask
prime minister modi to wean himself off
russian oil i think that is something
that certainly
the the president of ukraine would want
to know as well as many of our u.s
allies and he responded saying welcome
to the american press what do you make
of uh that comment from the president
i think president biden understands that
india and russia are very very close and
there are two reasons for that one of
them is their traditional relationship
that goes back to the cold war but the
other thing carly is that americans
don't focus on and that is the chaotic
withdrawal from afghanistan last year
severely delegitimized america's friends
in new delhi because new delhi was a
strong supporter of the afghan
government and that means that the
pro-russia elements in new delhi really
have become much more influential
recently so this is a result of the
failure of our policy in central asia
but doesn't a flip remark like that by
the president really obscure the
important question that was ultimately
being asked i understand your
explanation but let's be realistic if
india decouples from russia specifically
from russian oil that's really going to
hurt the russian war effort and could
help ukraine in the long run which seems
to be rightly so what the world
community wants
yeah it's certainly what the world
community wants and the world community
is not very happy with india's close
relationship with moscow
and at this particular time it just
shows you that once you make a big
mistake one place it's going to have
long-term reverberations
so right now
you know president biden is not going to
say oh yeah i really screwed up in
afghanistan that's why we have this
problem in ukraine but the american
people need to understand that the biden
policy has been a failure and it's going
to affect our relationships on more
critical things like for instance
getting india on board with ukraine and
getting india on board with china yeah
and you know he could have made that
welcome to the american press comment
because everybody was shouting at once
and he couldn't hear the specific
questions being asked uh but we'll have
to wait and see maybe he should clarify
that comment something else that needed
a lot of clarification yesterday was the
fact that president biden initially
seemed to signal that the u.s would get
involved militarily if china invaded
taiwan now he is going back to the
stance of strategic ambiguity how do you
read this back and forth between the
biden administration and the president
himself yesterday
yeah this is amateur hour at 1600
pennsylvania um and this actually has uh
real world consequences largely because
the chinese will look at this and say
that the administration is incapable and
irresolute um you know biden was very
clear um a couple days ago when he said
look the united states will defend
taiwan i mean there was no ambiguity
about that and now under pressure you
know you have his subordinates
contradicting him biden now changing his
tune um this really is
this is bad and it's bad not with regard
to taiwan only it's regarded with all
our defense commitments around the world
gordon this keeps on happening this
isn't the first time take a look at this
montage
the president delivered a forceful
denunciation of vladimir putin mr biden
appeared to call for regime change
although the white house later walked
that back the white house was quick to
walk back the president's comments that
putin cannot remain in power the white
house walked back some of his statements
but is that something that keeps
vladimir putin guessing
i mean look we beat up on biden a lot
here because there's a lot to beat up on
but i would argue him showing strength
against china was a good thing i know
there are many people who would disagree
with that but the overall point gordon
if this white house can figure out what
they're going to say on a day in and day
out basis and what their tact is going
forward what should that tact
be well i think the united states uh and
biden was right the first time his
instincts were yes we will defend taiwan
and i think his instincts were actually
right on on putin um because putin is
someone um who you know is going to take
down the international order he's going
to work with the chinese very closely um
this is the new axis and biden was right
about that but the point is people
shouldn't be talking to the president
united states anymore they should be
talking to the press secretary because
obviously the press secretary is more
influential in setting american policies
than the president of the united states
um and that's the reason why our friends
and allies and partners are looking at
us and saying
is the united states still the united
states that's a question that the biden
team is going to have to answer love him
or hate him people voted in joe biden
nobody voted in ron claim nobody voted
in karine john pierre and that is
concerning gordon chang we appreciate
your insight this morning thank you very
much sir