ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Taiwan's security in the broader context by briefly reviewing the basic principles of Clinton foreign policy and the administration's goal of creating a "new Pacific community." The administration's foreign policy strategy was outlined in September 1993 by national security adviser Anthony Lake. The presidential transition between George Bush and Bill Clinton was accompanied by the widespread belief that the United States was entering a new era. With the end of Cold War, Americans were confronted with the necessity of focusing on domestic problems held in limbo because of communist threats to national security. Many in the Clinton administration realized that Asian perceptions of the United States as a declining power were harmful to US interests. Clinton emphasized Asia's growing economic importance to the United States in an era of a more integrated global economy.
