New Delhi, June 6 -- The deputy foreign ministers who receive foreign journalists at Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs no longer open with maps or military timelines. They open with a number. In the past year alone, Chen Ming-chi told a visiting delegation, Taiwanese intelligence identified 45,000 official Chinese accounts that generated roughly three million false posts targeting the island. That is the war Beijing is already fighting - and Taipei's most pressing question is not how to win it militarily, but whether Taiwanese society is resilient enough to survive it.

a fact that makes any crisis in the Taiwan Strait a global emergency well beyond the island's own borders. Beijing has made no secret of its ambition to bring Taiwan un...