India, Oct. 5 -- he Wall Street Journal, a newspaper difficult to write off as "woke", published a well-sourced essay warning that CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping remained intent on persuading the White House to explicitly state that the US did not favour Taiwan independence. Were such a statement to be made, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) would have witnessed a steep drop in its credibility as a force standing against unification of Taiwan with China. The DPP is pro-western, while the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) tilts towards China. The greater the confidence within the Taiwanese public that the US in particular would kinetically intervene on its side should Xi seek a unification by force, the more would the Taiwanese pub...