The Navy's thinking about China's plan for Taiwan

Although most Americans don’t realize it, our military leaders assume that armed conflict with the People’s Republic of China is a matter of when not if.

Pentagon thinkers who are briefed on our best intelligence about Beijing’s intentions assess that 2027 is the year that Chinese President Xi Jinping rolls the dice in an effort to reunite Taiwan with the mainland. Some defense pundits don’t think we even have that long. The odds of a war with the PRC during the second Trump administration loom large and ominously.