Commentary As Beijing erases freedom in Hong Kong, disrespects the visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and vastly increases the number of its nuclear missile silos, the question of the fate of Taiwan inevitably comes to the fore. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief Xi Jinping is making no secret of the fact that bringing Taipei under Beijing’s authority is perhaps his and the CCP’s fondest desire. By doing so, Xi would effectively redraw China’s borders to equal those of the Qing empire whose collapse helped spawn the Party. This would make Xi perhaps the greatest Chinese Communist hero of all time, even surpassing Mao Zedong and certainly assuring himself an embalmed presence in Tiananmen Square next to the Great Helmsman. What stands in the way of Xi essentially repeating in Taiwan what he is now doing by crushing Hong Kong? Taiwan is not a nuclear power. It does not field …