China has accused the U.S. of “indiscriminate use of force” in shooting down a suspected spy balloon over the weekend, as the U.S. military searched for remnants off the Carolina coast.
The Biden administration says China was using the high-altitude balloon for surveillance purposes. China says it was a “civilian unmanned airship” used for meteorological research that strayed off course, and said Monday that it had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
in Indonesia in November, which paved the way for Blinken’s China visit. China reserves the right to take further action, Xie said. The official said Chinese surveillance balloons had briefly flown over the continental United States once before during the Biden administration and at least three times while Donald Trump was president, which was discovered only after he left office.also belonged to China, saying it was on a flight test for civilian purposes, had limited steering capability and had unintentionally entered the airspace of countries in the region.
For China, the U.S. reaction to the balloon suggests that not much would have come from Blinken’s visit anyway, Benjamin Ho, assistant professor in the China program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told NBC News. It “shows the deep sensitivities to the optics of these early maneuvers by the administration to reset relations,” he said.
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