(Washington News) Mark Milley, chairman of the United States Chiefs of Staff, said that the United States and China are not on the "edge of war", and it is not easy for Beijing to capture Taiwan.
cool down to war off the war
According to reports published by the US News website "Defense One" (Defense One "on Friday (March 31), Mily pointed out in an exclusive interview that the United States must avoid the" overheating "of the topic and speech of the United States and China.
Following the balloon storm in early February this year, Sino -US relations continue to be tense.In the past two weeks, the US Congress members listed a series of concerns to China to Mili and Minister of Defense Austro.At the hearing, Mili emphasized that war in the United States and China and Russia "is not imminent or inevitable," he said it was to cool down such remarks.
Milly explained: "There are many remarks in China and elsewhere, pulling the United States in, letting people have a feeling of war, or the United States is on the edge of war with China."The occurrence of war) is possible, and the situation has been upgraded from some incidents to unprepared.However, he believes that this possibility is relatively low at present, and in fact, the relevant remarks may make the situation overheating.
However, Milly agreed that the United States should provide weapons to Taiwan as soon as possible.He believes that one of the elements of the war of war is to ensure that the enemy knows that the cost of aggression will exceed benefits, and the United States has made preparations for three or four years, so that mainland decision makers can realize this.U.S. intelligence disclosed earlier that Chinese leaders have ordered the PLA to prepare for the attack by 2027.
Milly said that Taiwan needs air defense systems, anti -ship cruise missiles and anti -ship mines.However, he also said that Taiwan has 23 million people, including 170,000 restable troops and 1 million to 2 million reserve soldiers, while mainland China lacks relevant experience (crossing the sea) related experience, making occupying Taiwan a unlikely task.
