US general: Big mistake if China attacks Taiwan

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 18, 2022 12:07 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Pentagon's top general warned on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) that any Chinese attack on Taiwan would be a strategic mistake as bad as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

'I think it would be unwise. It would be a political mistake, a geopolitical mistake, a strategic mistake, similar to what the strategic mistake is that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has made in Ukraine,' United States Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said.

MAKING HIS MARK United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a media briefing after a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. GETTY IMAGES PHOTO VIA AFP

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