War with China would exhaust munition stockpiles ‘very rapidly,’ Jake Sullivan says

Published December 4, 2024 7:02pm ET



President Joe Biden’s national security adviser warned that the United States could quickly run out of munitions if a war with China broke out.

“God forbid we end up in a full-scale war with the PRC,” Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, referencing the People’s Republic of China. “But any war with a country like the PRC, a military like the PRC, is going to involve the exhaustion of munition stockpiles very rapidly.”

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