Ex-CIA chief, Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts China won’t invade Taiwan anytime soon: ‘Don’t think they want to go in’
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Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicted Sunday that the chances of China invading Taiwan were “pretty low, particularly over the next several years,” despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s bellicose rhetoric toward the self-governing island. “I don’t think they want to go in and attack Taiwan. They don’t want to destroy the very chip factories they want to take over,” Gates told CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” adding that he thought China would prefer to exercise control
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