USA-CHINA CONFLICT-TAIWAN? | United States would fight China in the next two years- General Mike Minihan,
Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan island, one of mainland China’s closest point from Taiwan, in Fujian province on August 4, 2022, ahead of massive military drills off Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island. (AFP/Hector Retamal)
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Odds ‘very high’ of US military conflict with China: Top Republican
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A top Republican in the US Congress on Sunday said the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high,” after a US general caused consternation with a memo that warned that the United States would fight China in the next two years.
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In a memo dated Feb. 1 but released on Friday, General Mike Minihan, who heads the Air Mobility Command, wrote to the leadership of its roughly 110,000 members, saying, “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
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“I hope he is wrong. …
I think he is right though,” Mike McCaul, the new chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives, told Fox News Sunday.
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