Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane (ret.) discusses Biden’s assembly with President Xi Jinping as China continues to ‘penetrate’ U.S. society.
U.S. navy consultants are calling out President Joe Biden’s bluff after he informed reporters Monday following his assembly with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that there’s no “imminent” risk of a Taiwan invasion or potential second Cold War.
On “Mornings with Maria” Tuesday, Fox News senior strategic analyst Ret. Gen. Jack Keane expressed considerations concerning the lackluster final result of the leaders’ first face-to-face assembly since Biden took workplace.
“The urgent situation we have is the threat of war, and that is the most dangerous situation the United States is facing,” Gen. Keane informed host Maria Bartiromo. “And, yes, the fact that we’re outgunned and outmanned in the Indo-Pacific region accentuates the real danger that’s here. We’re having people who are in uniform saying if we go to war with China, we could actually lose that war.”
Likewise, Hudson Institute’s Center on Chinese Strategy Director Michael Pillsbury informed “The Claman Countdown” Monday that he doesn’t see a “lot of progress” and warned that there may very well be “continuing conflict” after the assembly between the leaders of the 2 largest economies.
“I think there is a Cold War underway,” Pillsbury informed Liz Claman in an unique interview. “I think it’s nice that both sides want to defuse the harsh rhetoric, but nothing really is changed because of this three-hour meeting in Bali.”
President Biden’s assembly with Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “squandered opportunity,” Ret. Gen. Jack Keane stated on “Mornings with Maria” Tuesday, November 15, 2022. (Getty Images)
President Biden shut down any indications of a “new Cold War” in a press briefing following the highly-anticipated confrontation with China’s chief on the G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia. Their first in-person gathering comes amid rising geopolitical tensions over a potential invasion of Taiwan, which it claims sovereignty over, and knowledge intelligence considerations.
“I absolutely believe there’s need not be a new Cold War,” Biden stated Monday. “I’ve met many times with Xi Jinping and we were candid and clear with one another across the board. And I do not think there’s any imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan.”
“And I made it clear that our policy on Taiwan has not changed at all. It’s the same exact position we’ve had,” Biden continued. “I made it clear that we want to see cross-trade issues peacefully resolved and so it never has to come to that.”
Despite the president’s claims, Pentagon sources informed former U.S.S. Cole Commander Kirk Lippold a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would occur sooner, not later.
“President Xi has been absolutely unwavering in his stance regarding what China is going to pursue with respect to a reunification with Taiwan. Plus, we have to remember their projection of power into the South China Sea has gone unabated, and that the United States and other nations in the region have essentially done nothing, even though it’s been in violation of international law,” Lippold informed “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Monday. “So we’re the ones that have compromised and have continued to give in. And nothing really changed [Monday] in President Biden’s meeting with President Xi.”
Meanwhile, Gen. Keane on Tuesday slammed Biden’s “squandered opportunity” to say America’s geopolitical power and strength, and clarify that provocation shall be met with navy power.
“He had the chance to look President Xi in the attention and inform him, ‘Listen, we are not the aggressor here,” Keane said. “‘It is your aggression, your malign behavior, your intimidation, your coercion of Taiwan that is causing a destabilization across the Taiwan Straits. And if you take further action to actually go into conflict with Taiwan, then you are forcing my hand to respond militarily and to encourage the allies to do so as well.’”
Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Pillsbury analyzes tensions between U.S. and China, telling ‘The Claman Countdown’ Biden’s 3-hour assembly with Xi Jinping doesn’t change the strained relationship.
Pillsbury additionally argued that the President didn’t appear to handle the worldwide wrestle for energy, which relies on economics, commerce and investments.
“We can be sure that during the three hours, Xi Jinping complained about what the Chinese are calling technological containment, they say it’s a kind of Cold War. If you restrict the sale of chips to China, the design, implementation of software, all the things that Biden did a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese are hopping mad about it,” Pillsbury defined. “He also has kept all the Trump tariffs in place, and he’s increased some other means of punishing China by doing things on Taiwan that they claim are a violation of the one-China principle. So I see a continuing conflict.”
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Former USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold tells ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast’ that Xi Jinping is intently watching the weapons flowing into Taiwan and is prone to assault ‘sooner slightly than later.’
Without an apparent change in tone from Biden on his stance in opposition to China, Gen. Keane argued the president made the nationwide safety scenario “more dangerous.”
“[China wants] to see political division and social dislocation as a result of their actions, and they should be called on this action. And it’s shameful that the president has not taken that action to deal directly face-to-face with President Xi over these issues, not staff-to-staff,” Keane criticized. “Leader-to-leader is what should be done here.”
Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
