we agree with what minihan had to say.says mccaul. >> i hope is he wrong as well. i think he is right though. china is looking at reunification of taiwan. that's how they call it. several ways to do that the first one is to influence the election that will take place a year from today. president cy's party is running for re-election. china is hitting them hard saying to go to war with china. if they succeed in that effort like hong kong without a shot fired. about f. they don't win in that one, they are going to look at military invasion. we have to be prepared for this. it could happen 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 we could see a conflict with china and taiwan and the indo-pacific. this goes back to my father's war of world war ii. >> brian: here's the good news. if we all agree that this is an eminent threat and if minihan is speaking out for other people talk to the higher offices, then we commit to th

the head of the us air mobility command , mike minihan, his name, sent a memo to his subordinates ine warned that the us would have its last war with china in two years. this is reported by nbc news. i hope that i i'm wrong, my intuition tells me that we will fight in the 25th year. well, he hints that the reason for this war could be an armed conflict between china and taiwan. what do you think about these forecasts of the american general ? well, first of all, we can say that he did not say exactly what will happen, it means that accordingly, the pentagon does not yet have such data that in 2024-2025 the people's liberation army of china is trying to take control of taiwan by force. but if we look at some indicators on or on some signs of whether it can happen or not , then we see that gradually china is preparing to carry out such a forceful operation, to a military operation to seize taiwan, he uh, he is intensifying his rhetoric in the mass media, he is intensifying his let's put it this way, the rhetoric of the highest of the political leadership as far as china is concerned is

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mike minihan head of 50,000 air mobility command, united states presidential elections are in 2024 andis a senior fellow at the cato institute in foreign policy and he joins us now. doug, what do you make of this general's assessment? is it accurate? do you agree with it? >> i think it is excessive. china is a very serious challenge to america but it's important not to treat war as inevitable. a number about european countries did that before world war i. that accelerated the slide towards conflict no one wants a war in this case. it would be horrible for both countries so we don't want to treat it that way. rachel: what would be the red line to cross us over there. a move towards taiwanese independence? is that what would cause it? the general view if china is willing to put up with a certain amount kind of separatist activity but any move they saw as going towards independence would force them to act and most policy mangers i think are convinced china would take military action then. that would be the danger move. that would be potentially be a red line for conflict. the u.s. would h