ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Clinton administration strategy on global and regional levels, and China's role in those strategies. One major difference between the Clinton and Bush strategies was the higher priority placed on the economic aspect of US foreign policy under Clinton. Although personally fond of Taiwan and committed to its defense in the event of a People's Republic of China attack, President Bill Clinton set into motion strategies and policies that greatly complicated the Taiwan issue. The three objectives reflected traditional US interests in security, trade, and the promotion of democratic values and institutions; and the strategy itself was similar to the collective engagement of the Bush administration. The Clinton administration formally defined its national security strategy as one of "engagement and enlargement" in White House national security strategy statements beginning in July 1994. Efforts to shape the international environment were carried out through diplomacy, international assistance, arms control, nonproliferation activities, and military activities.
