Wang, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP), reiterated that the balloon shot down by the United States after the object flew over part of American territory had no crew, was a civilian aircraft and had no possibility of being remotely controlled.
The Chinese ‘spy’ balloon was spotted in late January in US airspace and was shot down over Atlantic waters on February 4. A few days earlier, it had flown over several regions of the United States, such as the state of Montana (northwest of the country), where one of the three nuclear missile silo fields in the United States is located.
During a panel discussion at the Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, Wang revealed that “there are countless balloons in the world and it is impossible to shoot them all down” and said felt that the decision to fire the device “does not show the strength of the United States, rather the opposite”
The same official also called on the American authorities to “step away” from “absurd actions” and demanded the “sincerity” of the American government, while acknowledging the negative consequences that this type of action can have on Sino-Chinese bilateral relations. Americans.
Wang called the US decision to shoot down the Chinese balloon a “strategic miscalculation” and reiterated that Beijing is interested in maintaining bilateral relations with the United States based on “mutual respect and peaceful coexistence”. .
Beijing has insisted in recent days that the balloon entered US airspace by mistakenly deviating from its path, reiterating that the balloon was used for meteorological purposes and not for espionage.
In addition to the “spy” balloon, the United States last week shot down three other flying objects on its territory and in Canada, the origin of which is under investigation by the American and Canadian authorities.
The discovery of the “spy balloons” reignited bilateral tensions and led to the suspension of a trip to China that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, intended to undertake.
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