Mike Pompeo Responds To Air Force General Predicting War With China In 2025

Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and ex-CIA Director, stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping was his favorite. “watching for American weakness” Monday interview after an Air Force general had warned that the U.S. was on a collision course to communist China in a memo.

Four-star Air Force General Mike Minihan In a memo last week, he stated that the U.S. would be fighting an all-out war against China within the next few years.

“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” He wrote. “Xi secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.”

Minihan stated that his number one priority was to instill the truth that “unrepentant lethality matters most” He is the leader of 50,000 servicemen.

Pompeo Adressed Minihan’s remarks during an appearance on Fox News’ “Special Report,” saying: “I take General Minihan to be serious, in the sense of he’s clearly very concerned that we’re not doing enough to prepare to deter the Chinese Communist Party.”

“I think that’s what he was really getting at – it’s hard to put timelines on any of these things: he says 2025,” Pompeo. “But make no mistake about it, Xi Jinping is watching for American weakness. He’s watching for an absence of resolve. And if he sees opportunity, he will seize that very opportunity.”

Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (Republican from Texas), stated Sunday that there is a possibility of a conflict between China and the United States by 2025. “are very high.”

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

“We have to be prepared for this,” McCaul spoke. “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.”

Rep. Adam Smith, the leading Democrat on Armed Services Committee Claim The possibility of the U.S. ending up in war with China was a real possibility “highly unlikely.”

“We have a very dangerous situation in China, but I think generals need to be very cautious about saying, ‘We’re going to war. It’s inevitable,’” He claimed.