
The head of the CIA, William Burns, has assured that the Chinese regime could attack Taiwan in the coming years, referring to the fact that President Xi Jinping is "preparing for a war" in his ambition to unite the island with Chinese territory. Political tensions between the two countries date back to the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949).
Despite the fact that China has publicly reiterated its intention to control Taiwan through peaceful means, Burns, in an interview with the PGB Network, noted that Jinping would also have instructed his military leadership to be ready to launch in 2027. an eventual war.
" I'm not sure when. The honest answer is that the further into this decade we go, the greater the risks of a military conflict will be ," the CIA chief said.
Burns recalled that Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have had a very close relationship in recent years. " A week before Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, when they met at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, they declared a boundless friendship ," the head of the CIA said.
In terms of military power, China is superior to Taiwan in almost every way, from tanks to artillery to aircraft.
However, Taiwan has a larger military reserve of ground troops that it has trained in the event of a full-scale invasion by China. An attack on Taiwan has been considered possible since the 1950s.