Commentary The current debate over America’s strategic ambiguity misses the best parts of both clarity and ambiguity. U.S. strategy should change to adopt them. The debate over the proper U.S. strategy toward Taiwan remains in the news. The current conventional wisdom is that the United States must counter communist China’s aggression by being more clear in the U.S. strategic commitment to the island. Others counter that this is too dangerous and might inflame tensions in the region, and invite a war that involves nuclear weapons, which the United States is likely to lose. There is also the idea that strategic ambiguity meets the U.S. needs as it makes the Chinese regime unsure of what action will invoke a U.S. response and, thus, the ambiguity produces a deterrence. But nowhere in the discussion is the idea that the United States should combine the best of both strategies—be ambiguous in some areas …