China says US Balloons Entered Airspace More Than 10 Times In Last Year

The Spy Baloon Saga Has Taken Another Turn. Now China Says High-Altitude Balloons From The United States Have Sailed Across Chinese Airspace Without Permission More Than 10 Times Since Last Year.

This Is According To The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Wang Wenbin Who Said “It Is Also Common For US Balloons to Illegally enter The Airspace Of Other Countries, “Since Last Year Alone, US High-Altitude Balloons Have Illegally Flown Over China’s Airspace More Than 10 Times Without The Approval Of relevant Chinese authorities.

A Number of Other Such Devices Have Since Been Shot Down Over The United States And Canada, Though Beijing Has Only Admitted that the First was one of Its own.

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Speaking on behalf of the National Security Council, Adrienne Watson said in Washington on Monday that it is untrue to assert that the United States operates surveillance balloons over China.

Watson said that China was responsible for the People’s Liberation Army’s high-altitude surveillance balloon program for intelligence gathering, which was employed to violate the sovereignty of the US and more than 40 other nations across five continents.

“This is the most recent instance of China trying to repair the harm. It has falsely and repeatedly claimed that the surveillance balloon it flew over the United States was a weather balloon, and it still hasn’t provided any convincing justifications for its unauthorized entry into both our airspace and other countries’ airspace.”

But a Three Year Article Posted By The Guardian, Had The Headline “Pentagon Testing Mass Spy Balloons Across The US. The Article Stressed That The Balloons Promised a Cheap Monitoring Platform That Could Follow Multiple Cars And Boats For Extended Periods.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a trip to Beijing that many had hoped would stop the dramatic deterioration in relations over Taiwan, trade, human rights, and threatening Chinese actions in the disputed South China Sea after the balloon incident.

Also on Monday, the Philippines accused a Chinese coast guard ship of deliberately aiming a military-grade laser at a Philippine coast guard vessel in the South China Sea, temporally impairing part of the crew, and violating Manila’s sovereign rights in a “blatant” manner.