Posted on 02/05/2023 5:25:51 AM PST by FarCenter
The United States has shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of the US state of South Carolina, a week after it entered US airspace and triggered a dramatic spying saga that worsened relations between Beijing and Washington.
The military attack on Saturday drew an immediate rebuke from China, which warned of “necessary” responses and insisted the “unmanned civilian airship” was a weather research balloon that had strayed into US airspace “completely accidentally”.
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China’s foreign ministry condemned Saturday’s hit on the balloon, expressing Beijing’s “strong dissatisfaction and protests against the use of force by the United States to attack the unmanned civilian airship”.
It criticised the US for “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice” and said it “will resolutely uphold the relevant company’s legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time reserve the right to take further necessary responses”.
The balloon’s presence in the skies above North America has dealt a severe blow to already strained US-Chinese relations, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly cancelling on Friday a high-stakes Beijing trip aimed at easing tensions.
China has been eager for a stable relationship with Washington so it could focus on its economy, battered by its now-abandoned zero-COVID policy.
Earlier on Saturday, the Chinese foreign ministry played down the cancellation of the Blinken visit, which had been agreed in November by Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying neither side had formally announced any such plan.
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I’m confused what are they condemning? That we shot down an unauthorized violation of our airspace. I suggest we send a couple of dozen spy er ah weather balloons over China and see how they react. Maybe film a season of survivor on one of their manufactured islands
Amazing hutzpah
I'd prefer we send a dozen dozen nukes to erase china and get this over with.
I’ll bet biden and china collaborated the entire episode
no thank you to the America coup who allowed them to spy before shooting it down when the job was done
Yep, so would I since Biden is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.
It sure smells that way. The “shoot down” was so staged. Made it seem like fighter needed to chase down the balloon. After 3 days over the lower 48, no need to rush to shoot. Fighter should have been waiting for the balloon. FJB. He is such a JOKE
It is a trespass by China. If it is “peaceful”, China should prove it. It is hostile until they prove it is peaceful. A US aircraft at 80-thousand feet altitude should loiter in their air-space....see what they say about that!
I just knew the was The Babylon Bee
Kabuki theater. Joe let the spy balloon get across the United States so the Chinese would get all the info they wanted, and the Chinese condemn Joe so it looks like he’s an American Patriot, instead of a Chinese asset. Which he is.
there. fixed it.
Is China paying Biden rent on our airspace?
Since the lamestream media lappigs crap all over the People …. biden says what’s not to love …..
If it was peaceful then they should have notified us and asked if it was OK.
Assume it is hostile trespass until China proves otherwise.
We used to.
U.S. SPY FLIGHTS OVER CHINA ENDED TO AVOID INCIDENT
WASHINGTON, July 25,1971 — Administration officials said to day that the United States had suspended flights over Commu nist China by manned SR‐71 spy planes and unmanned re connaissance drones to avoid any incident that might inter fere with President Nixon’s forthcoming visit to Peking.
But, it was reported. Ameri can reconnaissance satellites will continue missions over Chi na. Such missions are consid ered relatively unprovocative since they are well above the airspace of China.
In 1960, it was recalled, planned conference between President Dwight D. Eisen hower and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev was called off by the Soviet Union after an Amer ican U‐2 spy plane had been shot down over Soviet ter ritory.
Nationalists Fly U‐2 Jets
U‐2 planes are flown over the Chinese mainland by Chi nese Nationalists from Taiwan, but, an official informant said, “the mainland Chinese have good enough radar to distin guish between an overflight by the kind of aircraft we possess and the kind flown by the Chinese Nationalists.”
Funny how the Chicoms complain about things when they themselves do those exact things or worse. If you didn’t know better, you would think it was a Democrat.
I think we should go harass the crap out of their ships.
They refer to “the relevant company” without naming it?
And they want to focus on their economy? Means rip off the United States to fund a military build up.
China always lies.
We now have confirmation that we have traitors installed at the highest levels of government.
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