The US’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touched down in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday, on an official visit that has riled up the rivalry between Beijing and Washington. Taiwan, a small island country in East Asia with a population of about 20 million people, has been a bone of contention between China and the United States. Taiwan’s located in the “first island chain”, an area that covers a list of US-friendly territories that are crucial to US foreign policy. It became a Chinese territory in 1945 by conquest, after Japan, who had ruled the island from 1895 surrendered during World...