president of the united states Joe Biden, Ha disconnected officially espionage of China or any other country this Thursday three unidentified air bodies hit last weekend Over the United States and Canada a week after a balloon attributed to a spy program from Beijing was lowered.
In an appearance to the White House, Biden thus confirmed the information provided by his Administration spokesmen in recent days, who had already suggested that in the case of the last three objects these were “dangerous” devices.
“Right now nothing to indicate that they are connected “I don’t believe they are the Chinese spy bubble program or any other country’s surveillance tools,” Biden said. Also, the intelligence communitymost probablytied balloons. private businessesrecreational facilities or investigationstudying meteorology or conducting other scientific research”. He justified shooting them down because they posed a risk to civilian commercial air traffic” and because the risk could not be ignored they will follow precision installations”.
pressure to appear
both very republicans like some democrats they had been pressing President’s public speech on events of recent weeks, when his administration briefed congressmen in closed-door sessions. Although he had sent a message to China in his State of the Union address, he assured that he would act if he threatened China. sovereignty He did not directly mention the balloon accused of espionage in this intervention of the United States and did not mention the destruction of three other objects in recent days.
This Thursday, on the other hand, Biden expanded on both episodes. so called spy balloonTriggering tensions once again with China, which continues to deny it is a surveillance device, it accused Washington of “overreacting” and brought forward allegations that it was spying on its territory with US hot air balloons.
talk to xi
Biden took advantage of this Thursday’s outlook. trying to get bilateral relations back on track He is in a clear effort to revive the rapprochement efforts with China that he and Xi agreed upon after meeting face-to-face in Bali in November, which were frozen by the balloon event. And although he assured me he wouldn’t apologize for ruining her, he also said: “I look forward to speaking with Chairman Xi and getting to the heart of the matter.”.
The president assures that the partition “underlines the i”.The importance of protecting lines of communication between diplomatic and military professionals”. And he assured that he would continue to communicate with his interlocutor.
“We continue to negotiate with China, as we have done for the past two weeks,” he said. “As I have said from the beginning of my administration, we see that competition, not conflict with Chinese. We are not looking for a new cold war, However i don’t apologize and we will race AND we will manage this competition responsibly for this does not cause conflict”.
It is similar to the message that Vice President Kamala Harris initiated the previous day, which minimized the impact of the balloon event on bilateral relations.