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China says will 'safeguard interests' over balloon shootdown
Associated Press ^ | February 7, 2023 | Huizhong Wu

Posted on 02/07/2023 6:19:42 AM PST by 4Runner

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Tuesday reiterated that the “unmanned airship” posed no threat and entered U.S. airspace accidentally.

Mao again criticized the U.S. for overreacting rather than adopting a “calm, professional" manner, and for using force in bringing the balloon down Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean just off the U.S. coast.

Asked if China wanted the debris returned, she only reasserted that the balloon “belongs to China."

“The balloon does not belong to the U.S. The Chinese government will continue to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests," Mao said at a daily briefing without giving further details.

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1 posted on 02/07/2023 6:19:42 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

Box up the trash and ship it back to them in three months like they did with our P3 they knocked down a few years back.


2 posted on 02/07/2023 6:21:12 AM PST by skeeter
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To: 4Runner
resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests

So they are asserting that they have a "legitimate right" to overfly the USA any time they want? They are more nuts than I thought.

3 posted on 02/07/2023 6:24:01 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: 4Runner

The Chicoms own the White House and most of Congress and we’re obsessing over what they might have seen with this 19th century ballon technology.


4 posted on 02/07/2023 6:27:05 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: 4Runner

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5 posted on 02/07/2023 6:29:25 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: 4Runner

Mao’s back in charge? First name is family name, right?


6 posted on 02/07/2023 6:31:12 AM PST by dangus
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Well, in their point of view, no other nation has any legitimate claim to sovereignty. Only the Middle Kingdom has such claim.


7 posted on 02/07/2023 6:33:48 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: hardspunned

The Chicoms own the White House and most of Congress and we’re obsessing over what they might have seen with this 19th century ballon technology.

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You don’t know what technology is there, and specifically what it was doing, until you can examine it.

If it was an 18th century balloon, do you think their spokespeople would be adopting this tone? Or do you think they would blow it off?

If they were just flying balloons to fly them, like chinese lanterns, then they’d be like “psh... we can make more”


8 posted on 02/07/2023 6:35:29 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: 4Runner

So....can we float a huge balloon over China then? Asking for a friend.


9 posted on 02/07/2023 6:39:16 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: 4Runner

Coming from a Regime that freaks out at the drop of a hat ,LOL


10 posted on 02/07/2023 6:47:13 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: z3n

They OWN the White House! What on God’s green earth could they have discovered with the most advanced tech mounted on a balloon, satellite or spy that they couldn’t have ordered up from their DC stooges. This is a non issue other than it’s value to distract.


11 posted on 02/07/2023 6:54:10 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

They OWN the White House! What on God’s green earth could they have discovered with the most advanced tech mounted on a balloon, satellite or spy that they couldn’t have ordered up from their DC stooges. This is a non issue other than it’s value to distract.

I’m not worried about what they got if anything. It’s the violation of our air space and the hesitation to do anything about it until the reaction against it got bad enough to force them to act.


12 posted on 02/07/2023 7:12:18 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: 4Runner

The chinks just flicked a bugger at us.


13 posted on 02/07/2023 7:28:22 AM PST by NavyShoe
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To: 4Runner

“Safeguard interests”?

They’re going to protect Biden?

Not surprising. He’s a valuable asset.


14 posted on 02/07/2023 7:29:39 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic!)
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To: rxh4n1

This Chicom balloon is way down on the list of incompetent and traitorous acts the DC junta is responsible for.


15 posted on 02/07/2023 8:22:53 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

This Chicom balloon is way down on the list of incompetent and traitorous acts the DC junta is responsible for.

I have a list too. The Awan brothers, the “hacking” of the OPM database, Fang Fang, DiFi’s driver, the Wuhan lab are among them. No one was ever sent to prison for any of it.


16 posted on 02/07/2023 8:30:16 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: hardspunned

It took his crack-head son off the front page.


17 posted on 02/07/2023 8:44:07 AM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: eyedigress

Same with classified documents.


18 posted on 02/07/2023 8:45:26 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: rxh4n1

Agreed.


19 posted on 02/07/2023 9:36:44 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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