TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen had a New Year message for China on Saturday: military conflict is not the answer. The Chinese communist regime claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has increased military and diplomatic pressure in the past two years to assert its sovereignty claims. “We must remind the Beijing authorities to not misjudge the situation and to prevent the internal expansion of ‘military adventurism’,” Tsai said on Saturday in her New Year’s speech, broadcast live on Facebook. Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically-elected government, and constitution.” It has repeatedly vowed to defend its freedom and democracy. Chinese leader Xi Jinping said in his New Year address on Friday that the complete unification of “the motherland” was an aspiration shared by people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. On Saturday, after Tsai’s speech, the Chinese regime responded with a stern warning …