The Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Wang Wenbin, indicated that the United States government also flies spy balloons over the territory of the Asian nation, in the midst of an international scandal that began after the army of the North American country managed to shoot down one of these objects at the beginning of the month. . The official pointed out that his political rivals have carried out at least 10 raids since the beginning of 2022.
Source: (The Guardian)
According to a spokesman for Chinaat a press conference in Beijing, “it is not uncommon” for the United States to enter the airspace of other countries without being identified. “Since last year, several high-altitude balloons belonging to the US armed forces illegally entered our airspace, without seeking the approval of the relevant departments,” they denounced from the Asian giant.
The White House denied the charge, stating that “any claim that we operate surveillance balloons over China it’s false,” according to Adrianne Watson, the presidential spokeswoman on the UN security council. In addition, he expressed to the international organization that “this vehicle is a program for the collection of intelligence.” of the Xi Jinping government.
This event occurred last week, when the Joe Biden government began to point out that there were clashes with various unidentified flying objects throughout the entire American continent, which were destroyed by the United States. For its part, the eastern nation argued that they are not spy vehicles, but rather weather balloons that went off course.
China’s alarms
After this situation was made public, several Chinese politicians stated that it could become “a trigger for conflicts” in bilateral relations in the future.
“What we want to point out to everyone is that the frequent launch of advanced aerial missiles to shoot down unidentified objects is an overreaction of overreaction of violence,” Wenbin said Monday.
in tune, from Taiwan revealed that in recent years they detected several of these vehicles, which they assumed were going to the side of the United States and Japan, because the proximity they have with the Asian giant makes it easy to use radar to reconnoiter the terrain of the island without the need for these objects.