Taiwan has returned as a central issue in contention between the US and China. Biden is continuing the Trump policy of upgrading relations with Taiwan, while China is sometimes encroaching on Taiwan's air and naval space. The longstanding US policy of "strategic ambiguity" over Taiwan is dangerously eroding. Recalling a previous crisis in the Taiwan Strait in 1958 that nearly led to US use of nuclear weapons, this podcast urges increase US-China contact to avoid what happened then: a misreading by both sides of the other's intentions.