Chairman Of The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Says China Has Yet To Decide Whether To Order Taiwan Unification By 2027

FILE - U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, Feb. 14, 2023. 

 VOA: Chinese Army Invasion of Taiwan Not a Given, US General Says 

WASHINGTON - There is still time to dissuade Beijing not to use force to reunify Taiwan with mainland China, according to America’s most senior military official. 

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said Friday that despite well-publicized plans calling for the Chinese military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, there is no indication Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a decision one way or the other. 

Speaking to an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, Milley said that gives the U.S. and other countries time to show Xi the use of force would be a bad idea. “You want to make sure that every single day, President Xi wakes up and says, 'Today is not that day,' and that that decision never comes,” he said.  

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Update #1: Xi Jinping has yet to decide whether to order Taiwan unification by 2027: top US military adviser -- SCMP  

Update #2: Xi undecided on whether to order military unification with Taiwan by 2027, top US official claims (The Independent)  

WNU Editor: Many in Taiwan have a different point of view .... China determined to annex Taiwan regardless of 2024 election results (Taiwan News).