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By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There is an old saying in politics that a gaffe is when a politician says what they really mean. And critics of U.S. President Joe Biden say he has made his fair share when it comes to Taiwan. On Monday, during his first trip to Asia as president, Biden said the United States would get involved militarily should China attack democratic Taiwan, seeming to break with a long-held policy of not making clear how the United States might react. For the U.S. commander in chief, it was the latest in a series of apparently off-the-cuff asser…