{"id":598634,"date":"2023-01-29T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=598634"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:18:54","slug":"mccaul-odds-of-conflict-with-china-and-taiwan-very-high-with-biden-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mccaul-odds-of-conflict-with-china-and-taiwan-very-high-with-biden-in-white-house","title":{"rendered":"McCaul: Odds of conflict with China and Taiwan ‘very high’ with Biden in White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) suggested on Sunday that the risk of a conflict with China and Taiwan is “very high” with President Biden in the White House. “We have to be prepared for this — and 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,” McCaul told Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.” A U.S. general said in a memo on Friday that he believes the country will be in a war with China by 2025, saying that Taiwan’s and the U.S.’s presidential elections in 2024 may give Chinese President Xi Jinping an “opportunity.” “I hope he’s wrong as well,” McCaul said. “I think he’s right, though, unfortunately.” McCaul also said he is “very” worried about the U.S. running out of precision missiles and advanced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) suggested on Sunday that the risk of a conflict with China and Taiwan is “very high” with President Biden in the White House. “We have to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}