ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the Trump administration’s initial uncertainty about its China and Taiwan policy and how that uncertainty opened a window of opportunity for Taiwan to use an interest-detached strategy to manage its relationship with the United States. This is influencing the Biden administration’s current foreign policy regarding Taiwan and China. The Taiwan–US relationship consists of bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral frameworks, each with its own form of relationality that can be used to define US–Taiwan relations in terms of dynamic development. Since autonomy is unlikely to occur in a bilateral setting, Taiwan believes that a better option is attaching itself to the United States in a tri- or multilateral framework emphasizing solidarity rather than interest-driven cooperation.
