House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul predicted China will attempt to take over Taiwan without the use of military force by trying to influence the self-governing island’s next election.
“I think the next elections in next January are going to be extremely important because I do believe with the former President Ma in China right now, China’s going to try to influence this next election and take over the island without a shot fired,” McCaul, a Texas Republican, said Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
McCaul was referring to Ma Ying-jeou, who became Taiwan’s first former president to have visited mainland China since the Republic of China government fled to the island after losing a civil war against Mao Zedong’s communists in 1949.
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