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With a warning to China that the United States will defend Taiwan, President Joe Biden has offered the island its loudest reassurance in decades but brought more uncertainty to a US stance designed to be ambiguous. On a visit to Tokyo, Biden gave an unequivocal yes when asked if the United States would defend Taiwan in an invasion by China, which claims the self-governing democracy off its coast as its own. “That’s the commitment we made,” Biden told a news conference, drawing a link between Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and calling for Moscow to pay a “long-term price” as a message …