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Odds ‘very high’ of US military conflict with China, top Republican says

A top Republican in the U.S. Congress said on Sunday the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high,” after a U.S. general caused consternation with a memo that warned the United States would fight China in the next two years. "I think he is right though," Mike McCaul, the new chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives said. “The odds are very high that we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan and the Indo Pacific,” McCaul said.