The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Sunday reluctantly agreed with an Air Force general’s prediction that the United States would go to war with China in 2025 over Taiwan.
House Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” weighed in on four-star Gen. Mike Minihan’s grim warning after NBC News reported Minihan wrote in a Friday memo to officers that while he hopes he’s wrong, “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
“I hope he’s wrong as well,”McCaul spoke. “I think he’s right, though, unfortunately.”
According to the Republican, war will be more likely if President Biden is elected. “projecting weakness.”
McCall stated that China has a keen interest in the region. “reunification”By influencing Taiwanese elections 2024, we could work with Taiwanese neighbors.
He said that fighting might break out if this fails.
“They are going to look at a military invasion, in my judgment,”McCaul stated to Fox of China. “We have to be prepared for this.
“I think as long as Biden is in office projecting weakness as he did with Afghanistan that led to Putin invading Ukraine, that the odds are very high that we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan and the Indo Pacific,”McCaul spoke.
The Department of Defense has downplayed Minihan’s memo, with a rep noting, “These comments are not representative of the department’s view on China.”
A Democrat who is a ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee disagreed with Minihan’s and McCaul’s prediction of fighting.
“Anything is possible, I’m really worried, though, when anyone starts talking about war with China being inevitable,”Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. spoke on Fox’s program. “And I want to be completely clear it’s not only not inevitable, it’s highly unlikely.”
Smith stated that generals need to be careful when expressing concerns about China.
“I don’t think we should be out there telling the world that we’re going to war with China most importantly because we’re not,”Smith stated.
“We have interests, we have to be in a position to deter China. War is not inevitable. It’s a very dangerous situation that we need to be prepared for, but I’m fully confident that we can avoid that conflict if we take the right approach.”
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