TT: Given the current standoff between Taiwan and China, to what extent do you think the US factor can help break the ice between Taiwan and China?
Spence: We've had the new engagement policy towards the mainland Chinese, and we still are committed to the Taiwan Relations Act.
And I don't see that changing. As long as that doesn't change, I don't think the engagement initiatives of this administration [under Bill Clinton] -- who knows what the next administration would do in that respect -- in terms of trade relations with China would affect our relations with Taiwan.
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