China could invade Taiwan before the 2024 US presidential election: sources
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EXCLUSIVE: China could see a "window of opportunity" to invade Taiwan before the next presidential election and even as early as within 18 months, officials familiar with U.S. and allied intelligence told Fox News.
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"We have always had and always been aware that China has an ever-present, ever-evolving plan for an amphibious assault and military invasion of Taiwan. If they are not successful in reunifying politically, then they will do so with force," one former senior intelligence official familiar with U.S. intelligence, and who has discussed intelligence belonging to a U.S. ally in the Indo-Pacific, told Fox News.
"What is different now is, we have intelligence that this has gone from an indefinite, nebulous scenario, to a belief that there is a window of opportunity in the next 18 months," the official continued. "I don’t think that’s a coincidence that window of opportunity is within a Biden administration."