August 3, 2007 2:50PM # What Does Hillary Think about Taiwan? By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) --- SHARE In [this video](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3913&fpsrc=ealert070730) from *Foreign Policy* magazine, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace scholar Michael Swaine talks about a conversation he had with Hillary Clinton. In it, he said, Hillary had intimated something along the lines of “it is absurd to think that the American people would support a war with China over Taiwan.” Swaine’s response, as I recall, was to say that that may be the view of the American *people*, but American *foreign policy elites* certainly would contemplate a war with China over Taiwan. Now, you may be saying, “Logan, you sure sound sketchy on this. Is this just your recollection? How about a quote?” Well, I’d love to provide a direct quote, and that was my intention when I started this post. However, when I clicked back to the video, the anecdote from Swaine was gone. “Am I losing it?” I thought. Until I scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page and found this: > Editor’s Note: This video has been edited since its original posting. A small portion was removed at the request of an interviewee. So here’s a question for Senator Clinton: What did you mean by your comment to Swaine? And to Swaine: What was your interpretation of what Hillary was driving at? That *she wouldn’t* go to war over Taiwan? That *we shouldn’t*? These are [very serious questions](http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Coming-War-China-Collision/dp/1403968411/) and they deserve a place in the presidential campaign. ##### Related Tags [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).