China: US General Expects Taiwan War in 2025 | Politics

For US Air Force General Michael Minihan, the signs of war with China.

In a memo, top military officials expect the People’s Republic of China to invade Taiwan as early as 2025 — and the United States will fight on the side of the democratic island nation. Minihan on Friday ordered 107,000 men and women under his command to prepare for battle.

“I hope I’m wrong. My gut feeling is that we’re going to fight in 2025,” Minihan wrote in the memo, first reported by ABC News. He heads the Air Mobility Command, which is responsible for, among other things, air refueling.

▶︎ Four Star General’s Logic: China’s dictator Xi Jinping (69) was sworn in for his third term at a party congress in October 2022 and established a War Council. Taiwan’s presidential election next year should give him an excuse to invade. More discovered in November 2024 America Presidential elections are coming up – the government in Washington will be distracted for months.

The US Department of Defense immediately contradicted Minihan: “These comments do not represent the Department’s view of China.”

Habeck officials expect the invasion to take place by 2027

However, many Western observers agree that war with China is almost set in stone. The only question is whether the CIA, the US secret service, believes it. Philip Davidson, the former commander of the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific, considers an invasion realistic by 2027 – a view shared by officials at Robert Habeck’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (53, Greens).

Shortly after his re-election, China’s dictator Xi ordered extensive strengthening of soldiers’ training and operational readiness. He said in Beijing that the army must be prepared for any war.

US President Joe Biden, 80, promised Taiwan in a televised interview in September that US soldiers would fight against the People’s Liberation Army. In this case, scientists from the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington consider. China The war will be lost.