US military experts are calling President Joe Biden’s bluff after he told reporters Monday after his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that there is no “imminent” threat of an invasion of Taiwan or a possible second Cold War. On “Mornings With Maria” on Tuesday, Fox News senior strategist Ret. Gen. Jack Keane expressed concern about the inglorious outcome of the leaders’ first face-to-face meeting since Biden took office. “The emergency we have is the threat of war, and that is the most dangerous situation the United States faces,” General Keane told host Maria Bartiromo. “And, yes, the fact that we’re outgunned and outgunned in the Indo-Pacific highlights the real danger here. We have people who are dressed up to say that if we go to war with China, we could actually lose that war.” Similarly, the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for China Strategy, Michael Pillsbury, told “The Claman Countdown” on Monday that he doesn’t see “a lot of progress” and warned there could be “continued conflict” after the meeting between the leaders of two largest economies. . BIDEN, HEAD OF XI UNLIKELY TO HAVE ‘SIGNIFICANT’ IMPACT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES FACING WORLD: EXPERTS “I think there’s a Cold War going on,” Pillsbury told Liz Claman in an exclusive interview. “I think it’s nice that both sides want to tone down the tough rhetoric, but nothing has really changed because of this three-hour meeting in Bali.” President Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “missed opportunity,” said Mr. Ret. General Jack Keane said on “Mornings with Maria” Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (Getty Images) President Biden shut down any hints of a “new Cold War” at a press briefing after the much-anticipated showdown with China’s leader at the G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia. Their first in-person meeting comes amid rising geopolitical tensions over a possible invasion of Taiwan, which it claims as its sovereignty, and concerns about intelligence. “I absolutely believe there is no need for a new Cold War,” Biden said Monday. “I have met with Xi Jinping many times and we have been honest and clear with each other in general. And I don’t think there is any imminent attempt by China to invade Taiwan.” “And I made it clear that our policy on Taiwan has not changed at all. It’s exactly the same position we’ve had,” Biden continued. “I have made it clear that we want to see cross trade issues resolved peacefully and so we should never come to that.” Despite the president’s claims, Pentagon sources have told former USS Cole commander Kirk Lippold that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will happen sooner, not later. “President Xi has been absolutely unwavering in his stance on what China is going to pursue in relation to reunification with Taiwan. Furthermore, we must remember that their power projection in the South China Sea has gone unabated and that the United States and other nations in the region have done virtually nothing, even though it violates international law,” Lippold said on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on Monday. “So we’re the ones who compromised and continued to back down. And nothing has changed really [Monday] at President Biden’s meeting with President Xi.” Meanwhile, General Keane on Tuesday criticized Biden’s “missed opportunity” to assert America’s geopolitical power and strength and make it clear that the challenge will be met with military force. “He had a chance to look President Xi in the eye and say, ‘Listen, we’re not the aggressor here,’” Keane said. “It is your aggression, your misbehavior, your intimidation, your coercion of Taiwan that is causing destabilization in the Taiwan Straits. militarily and to encourage allies to do so as well.” Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Michael Pillsbury Analyzes US-China Tensions, Says ‘The Claman Countdown’ Biden’s 3-hour meeting with Xi Jinping doesn’t change strained relationship. Pillsbury also argued that the President did not seem concerned with the global power struggle, which hinges on the economy, trade and investment. “We can be sure that during the three hours, Xi Jinping complained about what the Chinese call technological containment, they say it’s a kind of Cold War. If you restrict the sale of chips to China, the design, the software implementation, all the things that Biden did a few weeks ago, the Chinese are going crazy about it,” Pillsbury explained. “He’s also kept all the Trump tariffs in place and increased some other means of punishing China by doing things in Taiwan that they claim violate the one-China principle. So I see an ongoing conflict.” GET THE FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Former USS Cole commander Kirk Lippold tells “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” that Xi Jinping is closely monitoring the weapons flowing to Taiwan and is likely to attack “sooner rather than later.” With no apparent change of tone from Biden on his anti-China stance, General Qin argued that the president was making the national security situation “more dangerous.” “[China wants] to see political division and social dislocation as a result of their actions, and they should be called to that action. And it is a shame that the president has not taken this action to confront President Xi directly on these issues, not staff to staff,” Keane criticized. “Leader to leader is what needs to be done here. “ READ MORE FROM FOX BUSINESS Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
