Economic Crisis May Expedite Beijing’s Timeline for Attacking Taiwan: Rep. Gallagher

“We need to shake ourselves out of our complacency,” warns House China Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) on EpochTV. “We’re in the early stages of a new Cold War, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.”
Economic Crisis May Expedite Beijing’s Timeline for Attacking Taiwan: Rep. Gallagher
Subcommittee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) speaks during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 18, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Eva Fu
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The impending economic storm in China could accelerate the Beijing regime’s timeline for mounting an invasion of Taiwan, House China Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) is warning.

The property sector driving the world’s second-largest economy is in an accelerating crisis as some of its biggest players miss payments to lenders amid mountains of debt. On top of that is what the lawmaker called communist China’s “demographic buzzsaw unlike any society in human history,” worsened now with millions of Chinese youth out of work and seeing their lives on hold.

Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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