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Odds 'very high' of US military conflict with China, top Republican says
WASHINGTON — A top Republican in the US Congress on Sunday (Jan 29) 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
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."
"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.
The general's views do not represent the Pentagon but show concern at the highest levels of the US military over a possible attempt by China to exert control over Taiwan, which China claims as a wayward province.
Both the United States and Taiwan will hold presidential elections in 2024, potentially creating an opportunity for China to take military action, Minihan wrote.
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