Would the U.S. protect Taiwan from China?

Would the U.S. protect Taiwan from China?

The security relations between the United States and Taiwan haven’t been clear for quite some time. With rising threats from China, would the U.S. protect Taiwan from the possible attack? The Washington Post reported:

The U.S.-Taiwan security relationship has been purposely ambiguous for four decades. But amid increasing Chinese threats of invasion, America’s commitment to Taiwan needs to be clearer, the island’s de facto ambassador to the United States said this week.

“We need some degree of clarity,” Hsiao Bi-khim, an American-educated lawmaker who became representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington this summer, told Today’s WorldView.

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Would the U.S. protect Taiwan from China?