Relations between Washington and Beijing have been significantly strained since the United States shot down a Chinese balloon that had flown over their territory on Saturday February 4.
By Théo Anberrée with AFP
Ihe United States is trying to unravel the mystery of the three unidentified flying objects they have shot down in recent days.
Relations between Washington and Beijing have been significantly strained since the United States shot down a Chinese balloon on Saturday, February 4, which had flown over their territory, while trying, according to them, to glean information from military sites. False, assures China, which has recognized the ownership of the machine but speaks of a weather observation program and an involuntary violation of the airspace of the great American rival.
On the other hand, the Americans have not pointed to China so far about the three mysterious “objects” they shot down in three days: Friday above Alaska, Saturday above the Yukon in the north- western Canada, and Sunday over Lake Huron, in the northern United States.
Of what must be called “unidentified flying objects”, Washington says he knows nothing or almost nothing: neither their origin, nor their use, nor their nature. The only assertion on the American side: none presented a direct military threat, but they potentially endangered civilian air traffic, hence President Joe Biden’s dispatch of fighter planes to eliminate them.
