The Pentagon’s top general has said that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would be comparable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a significant “strategic mistake.”
U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley made the remarks at a joint Pentagon press briefing with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday.
The meeting came shortly after Chinese leader Xi Jinping secured a third term as head of the ruling Communist Party.
During the press briefing, Milley was asked if he was at all concerned that Xi might make an “ill-advised or ill-informed decision” to take Taiwan by force, given that the liberal democratic island views itself as its own independent entity, whereas the CCP views it as part of its territory….