McMaster warns next two years could be 'dangerous period' for US-China-Taiwan during debut China Cmte hearing

Former National Security Adviser HR McMaster said Tuesday at the House Select Committee on China hearing that the next two years could be a “dangerous period."

"We've heard to maybe within the next year or two is the window that Chinese would look to try to take Taiwan," Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., remarked to McMaster on Tuesday, nothing that it would be a conflict of a massive scale. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

"There's a Taiwanese election in 2024. It's not going to be good, I think, from the view of Xi Jinping," McMaster said. 

"And then we [have] our own election, which we tend to be sometimes fractious during an election," he continued. "I think he may perceive weakness. If we think of deterrence as capability times will, our capabilities are not where they should be and capacity and their perception, which I don't think is right, but the party's perception of our will I think makes it a dangerous period," he added.