Upon landing in Beijing in 2015 to take up the China correspondent role for the ABC, I could have never imagined how the posting would ultimately end — 1,700 kilometres away in Taipei, looking in from outside. When I arrived in Beijing, Taiwan was a backburner story in Asia; now it's a flashpoint that some fear could see the US and China fight a war. It's lucky then that I got the chance to finish reporting the China story from Taipei to see how people on the ground view the military threat from the giant across the water. Every day,…