Biden needs to clarify his Taiwan policy ASAP

If you think the U.S. should remain ambiguous about defending Taiwan so as not to "provoke" China doesn’t understand the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping.

Helen Raleigh is a senior contributor to The Federalist, author of "Confucius Never Said," and of "Backlash: How China's Aggression Has Backfired." Follow her on Twitter: @HRaleighspeaks.

Although the CCP never ruled Taiwan, its obsession with the self-governing island is rooted in the party’s insecurity – the CCP wants to be the only party that governs China and sees Taiwan as a threat to the party’s legitimacy. 

After China’s ruling Nationalist Party lost the Civil War (1945-1949) to the CCP and fled to Taiwan, the CCP’s leader Mao Tse-tung planned to invade the island and eliminate the remainder of the Nationalist Party and the Republic of China (ROC) government. Mao abandoned his battle preparation for invading Taiwan after the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. But the CCP has never given up on conquering Taiwan by force when the time is right.