Colin Kahl, the Pentagon's top policy official, tamped down on renewed concern about a Chinese invasion of the democratic island nation.
The Pentagon official's view was recorded on January 31, before the Chinese high-altitudethat occupied minds in Washington, according to Defense News, one of the show's publishers.
It was a different view from that offered by Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command, who said last month in aPresident Xi Jinping of China attends the opening of the G20 summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 15, 2022. In an interview released on February 6, 2023, Pentagon policy chief Colin Kahl said Chinese leader Xi likely had yet to make a decision about whether to conduct an invasion of Taiwan.
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