The United States needs to defend Taiwan now more than ever, since the self-ruled island is part of the free world sitting at the forefront against China’s aggression, said Miles Yu, a senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank Hudson Institute. “Taiwan is on the front line of the epic fight between tyranny and freedom. We already lost one battle … that is Hong Kong. So we should never allow the next Hong Kong to happen,” Yu told The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet NTD on Oct 29. Yu previously served as the principal China policy adviser under former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Now he is also a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute. The Chinese regime has dismantled Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms through a national security law, which Beijing implemented in the Chinese-ruled city in the summer of 2020. The controversial law punishes vaguely-defined crimes such as …