Top US general says China currently lacks military capability to take Taiwan by force | Washington Examiner

CHINA LACKS 'ACTUAL NO-KIDDING CAPABILITY': Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told Congress yesterday that while China's long-term goal remains to unite Taiwan with the mainland eventually, the Chinese military is not yet capable of mounting a successful invasion to subdue the island. "I think China has a ways to go to develop the actual no-kidding capability to conduct military operations to seize through military means the entire island of Taiwan, if they wanted to do that," Milley said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Milley also said the current U.S. intelligence assessment is that Beijing is making…