China's Xi has ordered military to be ready for Taiwan invasion by 2027, CIA Director Burns says per FOX News

China's Xi has ordered military to be ready for Taiwan invasion by 2027, CIA Director Burns says per FOX News.

'Our assessment at CIA is that I wouldn't underestimate President Xi's ambitions with regard to Taiwan,' he said, adding that the Chinese leader was likely 'surprised and unsettled' and trying to draw lessons by the 'very poor performance' of the Russian military and its weapons systems in Ukraine."

'Now, that does not mean that he's decided to conduct an invasion in 2027, or any other year, but it's a reminder of the seriousness of his focus and his ambition," he said.

'I think it's a mistake to underestimate the mutual commitment to that partnership, but it's not a friendship totally without limits,' Burns said.

'Competition with China is unique in its scale, and that it really, you know, unfolds over just about every domain, not just military, and ideological, but economic, technological, everything from cyberspace, to space itself as well.

'It's a global competition in ways that could be even more intense than competition with the Soviets was,' he said.

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