Commentary Taiwan has become perhaps the hottest spot in the world in terms of a potential outbreak of war between it and China, which could potentially also draw the United States, Japan, Australia, India, and much of Southeast Asia into the conflict. Indeed, it could well become another World War of unimagined destruction. The background to this is, of course, the fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) failed to conquer Taiwan when it defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s armies and the Kuomintang, the nationalist political party in mainland China in 1949. The United States continued to recognize Chiang’s government in Taiwan as the official government of China and as the reigning holder of a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Consequently, the United States armed forces protected Taiwan from any attack by the communist regime on the mainland. Much of this changed, of course, in the wake of President …