Hillary Clinton supports ambiguity on Taiwan policy

Hillary Clinton supports ambiguity on Taiwan policy

Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, on August 3 said she supported the US policy of maintaining "ambiguity" over whether Washington would defend Taiwan in a conflict with China. The US is required to help Taiwan defend itself under the Taiwan Relations Act. But successive US administrations have generally sought to maintain a policy of ambiguity over whether the US would actually defend Taiwan in case of war. (Source: Demetri Sevastopulo and Andrew Ward, msnbc, Aug 3, 2007).