New Level of US-China Conflict, Dangerous Accusations About Hot Air Balloons

New Level of US-China Conflict, Dangerous Accusations About Hot Air Balloons.

The recent accusations sent from the US to China are downright dangerous, which could bring more uncertainty to the already strained bilateral relationship, Chinese analysts told Chinese state media Global Times.

China urged the US to be more sincere about improving relations with China than taking provocative actions, especially after images of white balloons made headlines in the US and some Western countries on Friday.

That's because Pentagon officials claimed that a Chinese spy balloon hovering over Montana this week had a flight path spying on "sensitive sites" in the US.

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A spokesperson from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday that the balloon did indeed belong to China but denied that the blimp had a spy function, that the blimp was for meteorological research purposes. The Chinese side regrets the accidental entry into US airspace due to force majeure, and will continue to communicate with the US side and properly deal with these unexpected situations caused by force majeure, the spokesman said.

The balloons – the size of three buses, flew at an altitude "well above commercial air traffic and presented no military or physical threat to people on the ground," Brig. General Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters at a news conference, the Washington Post reported. The sighting of a hot air balloon that the US accuses of being a Chinese spying tool. Before clarifying the facts, the US military and media accused China of espionage, and this incident has inflamed the US's recent situation regarding the "China threat" to a new level, with some Chinese analysts saying the statements lacked any real evidence.

The accusations leveled could bring new tensions to Sino-US relations, as they are a follow-up to more intensive US moves to contain China in the military, technology and diplomacy fields as well as on issues of major concern to China, including on the island of Taiwan. .

The series of US actions against China were also accompanied by news from the US that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would visit China on February 5 and 6. China has yet to confirm Blinken's visit, although a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson previously welcomed him.

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