A top-secret US government assessment has concluded that China would emerge victorious in a war over Taiwan , dealing a severe blow to American military dominance in the region reports The Telegraph.

The highly classified "Overmatch Brief" warns that the US's reliance on costly and sophisticated weapons leaves it vulnerable to China's ability to mass-produce cheaper systems in overwhelming numbers.

A national security official under President Joe Biden who reviewed the document reportedly turned pale upon discovering that Beijing had "redundancy after redundancy" for "every trick we had up our sleeve," according to The New York Times.

The loss of Taiwan, a key US ally and bulwark against Chinese power in the western Pacific, would deliver a devastating strategic and symbolic blow t

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