Lets

 

just put it in the simplest terms we can:

Our guy:

Gen. Mike Minihan, a four-star Air Force general who leads the Air Mobility Command (AMC)

“My gut tells me we will fight in 2025."

(China, obviously)

 

CHINAS RESPONSE:

 Yo Dude!

FYI...

Chinese military announces YJ-21 missile abilities in social media post read as warning to US amid tension in Taiwan Strait

"We got missiles that travel six times the speed of sound all the way, 

and have a terminal speed of 10 times the speed of sound, 

meaning a speed of 3,400 metres per second (11,155 feet per second) 

when it hits the target 

and cannot be intercepted by any anti-missile weapons system."

So bring it 

all the way across the Pacific 

with an aging fleet etc...