'You don’t achieve quick, decisive victories with underwhelming force,' Bill Burns said.
"I think the Chinese leadership is trying to study the lessons of Russia's invasion of Ukraine," he said in the interview with NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell in Aspen.
"It probably affects less the question of whether the Chinese leadership might choose some years down the road to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they would do it," Burns said."I suspect the lesson that the Chinese leadership and military are drawing is that you've got to amass overwhelming force if you're going to contemplate that in the future," Burns said.
"If there's one lesson I think they may be drawing from Putin's experience in Ukraine, it's you don't achieve quick, decisive victories with underwhelming force," he added.
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