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“By 2025, China will bring the cost and attrition to its lowest. It has the capacity now, but it will not start a war easily, having to take many other things into consideration,” Chiu Kuo-cheng said as a parliamentary committee in Taipei considered a multi-billion-dollar defence spending bill to build missiles and warships.