Would the U.S. protect Taiwan from China? Taiwan’s new envoy hopes for ‘clarity.’

By Adam TaylorOctober 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM EDT Washington Post

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Taiwanese sailors at Kaohsiung’s Zuoying naval base in 2018. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

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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