{"id":382483,"date":"2018-10-26T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-war-with-china-likely-in-15-years-retired-general-says\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:25:01","slug":"presstv-us-war-with-china-likely-in-15-years-retired-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-war-with-china-likely-in-15-years-retired-general-says\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US war with China likely in 15 years, retired general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The former commander of the US Army in Europe has warned that it\u2019s very likely the United States and China will be engaged in a military conflict in 15 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said Wednesday that European allies would have to do more to increase their military capabilities in face of a resurgent Russia because America will need to focus more attention on defending its interests against China, according to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/fe7595bd59414c6fa27f8b497821f0a5\"> Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States needs a very strong European pillar. I think in 15 years \u2014 it&#8217;s not inevitable \u2014 but it is a very strong likelihood that we will be at war with China,&#8221; Hodges told a packed room at the Warsaw Security Forum, a two-day gathering of leaders and military and political experts from central Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States does not have the capacity to do everything it has to do in Europe and in the Pacific to deal with the Chinese threat,&#8221; Hodges said.<\/p>\n<p>Hodges was US Army commander&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/26\/578135\/US-China-war-General-Ben-Hodges\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former commander of the US Army in Europe has warned that it\u2019s very likely the United States and China will be engaged in a military conflict in 15 years. Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said Wednesday that European allies would have to do more to increase their military capabilities in face of a resurgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}