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Three flying objects shot down by the Luftwaffe were harmless. However, the United States is sticking to its criticism of the Chinese spy balloon.
Twelve days after the spectacular Launch of a Chinese spy balloon and a few days after the destruction of three other unidentified flying objects over the USA and Canada, US President Joe Biden gave the all-clear.
The three most recent incidents, the Democrat said in his first public statement, were cleared up after a preliminary assessment by the secret services “harmless”presumably operated by private companies or research institutions aircraft return. A military or other threat to the United States most likely did not exist, and there was nothing to suggest espionage activities.
Biden: Kills were purely a precautionary measure
Biden did not allow any questions from reporters during his short speech on Thursday afternoon. As a result, the White House has yet to respond as to whether the kills by US fighters last Friday, Saturday and Sunday were necessary and proportionate. Biden called the kills one “Precaution”, especially for civil aviation. Biden did not say what the flying objects were, who they belonged to, why they were in US airspace. The salvage work was still going on. As far as the China balloon is concerned, the evaluation of the debris is also still in progress. also read: Flying objects: statement by US general causes a stir
Biden expressly emphasized here that he was in favor of the shooting down of the Spy Balloons the Chinese will not apologize in a next meeting with President Xi Jinping. It is a clear one violation of national sovereignty of the USA.
USA: Further criticism of the spy balloon
Beijing had maintained until the very end that the object shot down over the coast of South Carolina on February 4th was a weather balloon acted, which went off course due to unfavorable winds. The Pentagon denies that account, citing that the balloon, which carries significant surveillance technology, has long hovered over sensitive US military bases in the state of Montana, where the United States has dozens of nuclear-tipped ICBMs ready for launch. Since the course of the spy balloon was kept in view for days, according to Biden, it was possible to protect security-relevant areas in the USA from spying.
Biden announced that after the events of the past few weeks, the Department of Defense will again increase technical capacities renamed flying objects more accurate and comprehensive. Biden denied that there had been a recent accumulation of such flying objects. You might also be interested in: Joe Biden presents his vision of “America First”
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