A few days ago, US media reported that a four-star general of the US Air Force sent a memorandum to his subordinate officers, claiming that the United States would fight China in 2025, and told them to be ready. According to the news of the Okinawa Times of Japan on February 1, the Pentagon of the United States confirmed to the media that the memorandum was also sent to the U.S. military base in Japan. According to reports, the Pentagon also added that the memorandum "does not represent the Pentagon's views on China's affairs". According to the previous report of the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), the memorandum was issued by General Mike Minihan, the commander of the United States Air Force Mobile Logistics Command, to all air wing commanders and other air force combat commanders of the command, and ordered them to report to Minihan all the main work of preparing to fight with China before February 28. Minihan said in the memorandum: "I hope I am wrong. But my intuition tells me that there will be war in 2025." Minihan explained his reasons, saying that Taiwan will hold regional leadership elections in 2024, which will provide an excuse for military action for Chinese Mainland, while the United States will be distracted by its own presidential election at the same time. In response, Zhuo Hua, an expert on international issues at the School of International Relations of Beijing Foreign Studies University, told the Global Times on January 28 that in recent years, many people in the US military have speculated about the so-called "time of war". On the one hand, it is because in the development of American history, belligerence has already become the gene of the US military. It is engraved in the bones of all generations of American soldiers from the front-line troops to the senior military, and shouting that war is the culture of the US military; On the other hand, there is resource competition among the various services, arms and theaters of the US military. Rendering the threat is the way to strive for resource tilt. Regarding the speculation of the American general, Mao Ning, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, responded on January 30 that Taiwan was part of China. It is the Chinese people's own business to solve the Taiwan issue. The root cause of the new round of tension in the Taiwan Strait is that the Taiwan authorities have repeatedly "relied on the United States to seek independence", while some people in the United States intend to "control China with Taiwan". We urge the United States to adhere to the one-China principle and the provisions of the three Sino-US joint communiqu é s, implement the commitment of the United States leaders not to support "Taiwan independence", stop interfering in the Taiwan issue, stop the military ties between the United States and Taiwan, and stop creating new tensions in the Taiwan Strait. (Outlook New Era)