'President Xi is watching the Russian debacle in Ukraine and will likely be more cautious as a result,' James Stavridis said on Saturday.
to rebut an NBC News article in which an active military official predicted a conflict with China is coming in the near future.
On Friday, Mike Minihan, a four-star Air Force general and head of Air Mobility Command, issued a memo to his commanders in which he predicted an armed conflict with China in 2025 and urged them to be prepared. The general wrote that, due to the fact that the U.S. and Taiwan will be holding presidential elections in 2024, China will most likely make a move on the latter while the former is"distracted.
A spokesperson for Air Mobility Command confirmed the veracity of the memo to NBC News, though the Department of Defense said Minihan's"comments are not representative of the department's view on China." The job of the military is always to be ready to fight, but in my view, odds of a war with China are decreasing not increasing at the moment. The reason? President Xi is watching the Russian debacle in Ukraine and will likely be more cautious as a result.
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