TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen had a New Year’s message for China on Jan. 1: 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 in her New Year’s speech, which was broadcast live on Facebook. “Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically elected government, and constitution.” Taiwan officials have repeatedly vowed to defend its freedom and democracy. Chinese leader Xi Jinping said in his New Year address on Dec. 31 that the complete unification of “the motherland” is an aspiration shared by people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. On Jan. 1, after Tsai’s speech, the Chinese regime …