What is the lesson from Ukraine when it comes to Taiwan? China was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee RepMcCaul's top concern well before Beijing’s brazen violation of U.S. sovereign airspace.
With the Republicans now in control of the House, Rep. Michael McCaul , a former federal prosecutor with a specialty in anti-corruption and counterterrorism cases, is now chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It was McCaul’s resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party for their spy balloon that passed the House unanimously. But China was McCaul’s top concern well before Beijing’s brazen violation of U.S.
I've had very good discussions with Secretary [Antony] Blinken on this and Commerce Secretary [Gina] Raimondo. Unlike in the Clinton days, you're seeing a Commerce Department that I think is starting to wake up to the fact that we can't always lean toward industry alone. We have to have security built in so we're not selling to companies that are front stores for the Chinese military.
McCaul: I've been very critical of the administration for the slow-walking of this. Why is this taking so long? Because when you give them everything they need, the Ukrainians have surprised the world in that they can actually beat the Russians. I mean, with less than 3% of our Department of Defense budget, they've annihilated the Russian military; they've humiliated them.
Now, what I like to say is,"Look, they need to know where the money's gone." What I want to do is basically be able to tell the story of where has the money gone. A third of it's gone into replenishing our stockpile and modernizing our weapon systems, a third is going to our defense contractors to make new weapons, which we really need, and then a third's going into Ukraine.
McCaul: Every briefing I've had on the nuclear threat assesses they're just saber-rattling. We've had no indication they've deployed any of their tactical nuke systems. We would most likely see that happening if and when that ever happened. I think the message that's being back-channeled to Putin, not only by the United States but NATO, is that if you cross that line, that's a line too far, and there will be grave consequences.
Washington Examiner: Recently, a four-star general, former Indo-Pacific deputy commander who now runs the Air Mobility Command, ruffled a few feathers with a memo to his troops in which he said his “gut” tells him the U.S will go to war with China in 2025. The Pentagon distanced itself from the general’s prediction, saying it was “not representative of the department’s view on China.” Your take?
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