China threatens US entities over downing of balloon

AP via Yahoo ^ | February 15th, 2023 | Unattributed

[Mariner]

BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast.

At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures.

China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting in bringing it down with a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet.

Since the Feb. 4 downing of the balloon, the United States has sanctioned six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs.

The U.S. House of Representatives subsequently voted unanimously to condemn China for a “brazen violation” of U.S. sovereignty and efforts to “deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken also canceled a visit to Beijing that many hoped would stabilize ties that have cratered amid disputes over trade, human rights, Taiwan and China's claim to the South China Sea.

[Mariner]

While our resident neocons and Democrats have been obsessed with Russia Russia Russia, our existential enemy has been allowed to run roughshod.

Criminal negligence, if not complicity.

[ridesthemiles]

INVASIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

[escapefromboston]

Wonder how easy it would be for China (or Russia) to derail a train in America ?

[Texas resident]

Russia and their war in Ukraine is the squirrel.

[no-to-illegals]

LOL. Fun fun fun now that ballon be blown away

[Sirius Lee]

They sure don’t seem to be fazed at all about the subsequent shoot down of the “objects”.

[Clemenza]

China and Russia are our enemies. Agree that China is a bigger threat.

[JonPreston]

Neocons have made America a

[Brandonmark]

Weak US leadership!

[no-to-illegals]

Forget about all those classified documents the biden’s gave china. Think balloons

[Army Air Corps]

China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting...

It was in US airspace, so we can do whatever we please with it. That is an essential part of the concept of Sovereign Airspace.

[McCarthysGhost]

Uhh...No more mean tweets?

[laplata]

“China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast”.

Is that a threat to shoot down F-22s?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Oh, Noh! Kabuki theater.

[Terry L Smith]

maybes sumovyas may remember, that in WW2, the Japs floated balloons fixed wit’ aerial bombs, and a clock?

d’ey floated ‘em on dah jet stream an’ dah bombs gell over Oregon and Washington state!!

So’s its not nuts if dah Chinese are doin’ this balloon thing!

One, maybe, but not a bunch!!!

[blueunicorn6]

Wow.

The wangs in China talk.

[JoSixChip]

Russia is not our enimy, the US government is. We have done nothing but provoke and falsly accuse Russia of everything our government is doing. We are the bad guy these days.

[cabojoe]

If it was a "spy balloon" I would think that it would contain classified secret tech and that China would have hit the self destruct button on it as soon as it was discovered, like what happens when a rocket goes off course. Destroy the payload to keep what they were doing secret.

[eeriegeno]

will take measures against U.S. entities

I good place to start would be the NBA! I heard that Labron thought the balloon was a competing bassetball and ordered it shot down!

[DesertRhino]

If they didn’t want it shot down, they could have easily invited US Norad reps to immediately visit the control center and see precisely what it was, and quickly show the FAA and Norad that it was an atmospheric research balloon.

That said, this is a distraction from Biden’s failures and an attempt to make him look like the tough guy he always pretends to be.