air force’s downing of three unidentified objects in North American airspace on Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively by accusing the U.S. eavesdropping and spying activities.” Wang also alluded to the U.S. Wang went wider and deeper by criticizing alleged international spying activities by the NSA and the CIA dating back to the 1970s and urged foreign media to “look harder into… U.S. spy balloon incursions over China and demanding that the Biden administration “give China an explanation” for doing so. Wang followed up on Tuesday by re-upping his allegation of U.S. “We do not send spy balloons over China, period,” Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN told NPR on Tuesday. That evoked a flat denial by the Biden administration. was itself guilty of flying high-altitude balloons above China “over 10 times without authorization” in the past year alone. as “the No.1 surveillance country” with “the largest spy network in the world.” Wang salted that slam by alleging that the U.S. air force downing of the spy balloon as “ a trigger-happy overreaction.” Wang then berated the U.S. The Chinese Foreign Ministry kicked off its counter-narrative on Monday when Wang, the spokesperson, described the U.S. “This is more gaslighting by the Chinese government, trying to deflect attention away from the consequences of their blunder,” said HEATHER MCMAHON, a former senior director at the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Beijing’s apparent strategy: condemn, confound and contradict demands for transparency and accountability until the news cycle moves on. The Chinese government is also concerned about intensifying international concern about its spy balloon surveillance program, which the Biden administration has said spans 40 countries across five continents. Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER captured the Capitol Hill zeitgeist by declaring on Sunday that the balloon’s exposure and destruction had “humiliated” Beijing. sovereignty.” The Commerce Department piled on by sanctioning six Chinese firms implicated in surveillance balloon production. congressional anger which produced a bipartisan resolution on Thursday condemning the incursion as a “brazen violation of U.S. Instead, the Chinese Foreign Ministry is in full-throated counterattack mode insisting that China is the victim of what Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson WANG WENBIN declared on Monday were “ made-up stories and smears against China.”īeijing is peddling that victim narrative to parry U.S. Gone are Beijing’s initial expressions of “regrets” for the incident (in a statement that also claimed the airship was for meteorological purposes). airspace earlier this month, Beijing has decided the best defense is a good offense. outrage continues over the intrusion and subsequent destruction of a Chinese spy balloon in U.S. And in the wake of President Joe Biden’s bonding session with Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last week, we profile a book that argues China is playing for keeps in its influence campaign in Latin America.Īs U.S. This week we parse Beijing’s efforts to flip the narrative of its spy balloon exposure scandal update on Biden’s China-countering South Pacific diplomatic push and scrutinize the Chinese government’s stern diagnosis of America’s illegal narcotics problem. Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Feb.
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