‘I Think He’s Right’: Top House Foreign Affairs Republican Agrees With U.S. General’s War With China Prediction

U.S. Representative Michael McCaul, R-TX, stated Sunday that there is a possibility of a conflict in China by 2025 “are very high” A four-star Air Force General warned officers after warning them that he sees war on the horizon in Taiwan.

McCaul is the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Chair. “Fox News Sunday” He was in agreement with the most recent ahref=”https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-general-predicts-war-with-china-by-2025-i-hope-i-am-wrong”>statement Air Force General Mike Minihan was the one who made this statement. He noted that the military official believes U.S. troops. “will fight in 2025.”

“I hope he’s wrong . . .” McCaul stated. “I think he’s right, though, unfortunately.”

The top GOP lawmaker said China could look at a military invasion of Taiwan if President Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party fails to influence Taiwan’s presidential election in 2024, which takes place a year from today, and further China’s efforts on its so-called “reunification” The island.

Since 1949, Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China has been autonomously governed by China. China has a “One China” Policy claiming Taiwan is part of China

“We have to be prepared for this,” McCaul stated. “And it could happen … 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 we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific.”

Seth Jones, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, (CSIS), published a report last Wednesday that followed a CSIS wargame scenario. It pointed out that U.S. weapons, including long-range precision-guided ammunition, could be exhausted in less than a week in a conflict against China.

Jones gave his opinion to The Wall Street Journal. He noted that the U.S. support of Ukraine in its war against Russia had reduced the U.S. arsenal of weapons. Accordingly, Pentagon officials revised their inventory of munitions in December. This highlighted the years-old trend of underinvestment in munitions.

“The bottom line is the defense industrial base, in my judgment, is not prepared for the security environment that now exists,” Journal was informed by Jones that Jones said the defense industry is in its current phase. “better suited to a peacetime environment.”

“How do you effectively deter if you don’t have sufficient stockpiles of the kinds of munitions you’re going to need for a China-Taiwan Strait kind of scenario?” Jones stated.

McCaul acknowledged that the CSIS scenario left him feeling uneasy “very” worried.

“Our defense industrial base is broken,” He said that he had signed off on foreign military weapon sales to Taiwan three years ago.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) countered his colleague’s possible war with China narrative on “Fox News Sunday,” The conflict is “highly unlikely.”

Smith also suggested that generals be careful not to signal to the rest of the world. “the U.S. is going to war with China.”

“Anything is possible,” Smith stated. “I’m really worried when anyone starts talking about war with China being inevitable.”

McCaul agreed with Smith that the U.S. military supplies stockpile makes it vulnerable to a potential conflict with China.

“This is a huge problem,” Smith stated. “We don’t have the industrial base, and we don’t have the ability to ramp up that industrial base.”

According to officials from the U.S. Department of Defense NBCThis memo was published by Air Force General first. “are not representative of the department’s view on China.”

Lloyd Austin, Secretary for Defense, disregarded speculations of a Chinese invasion in Taiwan.

“What we’re seeing recently, is some very provocative behavior on the part of China’s forces and their attempt to re-establish a new normal,” Austin stated. “But whether or not that means that an invasion is imminent — I seriously doubt that.”

Virginia Kruta, Hank Berrien and others contributed to this report.