United States: China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, has slammed the US response to a Chinese high-altitude balloon crossing the country along with the well-publicised shooting down of three other unidentified flying objects as "absurd and hysterical".
The former foreign minister, who was recently promoted to the Chinese Communist Party's 24-member Politburo to oversee the country's foreign policy, said it "does not show that America is strong, on the contrary, it shows the opposite." shows."
On February 4, the US launched a massive search for UFOs after it claimed to be a Chinese surveillance craft sent to spy on military installations and other sensitive locations.
Also Read: Survivors were found 12 days after the earthquake in Turkey
Beijing has consistently denied the claims, claiming that the balloon was a non-military weather instrument that was blown up unintentionally.
There are many balloons from different nations in the sky all over the world. Do you intend to consume them all at once? Wu asked. Beijing claimed last week that Washington has flown high-altitude balloons over Chinese airspace at least ten times since May 2022.
Although the balloon incident widened the rift between the two countries and prevented the US secretary of state from making a rare trip to Beijing, Antony Blinken confronted Wang outside the Munich conference on Saturday to clarify that " The United States will not stand by any violations." of our sovereignty.
Also Read: Mine-related worries and impatience around the world's seabeds
He also lectured his Chinese counterpart on Taiwan, North Korean missile tests, the conflict in Ukraine and Washington's "values and interests," according to a brief readout.
In a public speech, Wang urged Washington to "correct" its confused approach to Sino-US relations and stop trying to "divert attention from its domestic problems" by exaggerating such "absurdities". . It was not immediately clear what Wang said to Blinken privately.
However, he had previously claimed that Washington was attempting to deflect attention from a poisoned train incident in Ohio that had been used to destroy airplanes after the Pentagon had passively tracked them for more than a week. It happened just a day before sending the -22 fighter jet. The Chinese diplomat did not specify the domestic issues the US should focus on.
Wang also noted earlier this week how, days after a shocking revelation by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about a secret US campaign to blow up Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines, UFO sightings made headlines in the American media.
Also Read: Wang Yi of China is cautioned by Blinken not to support Russia in Ukraine
The US was able to salvage the wreckage of the Chinese balloon for further investigation, but the search for the remains of the other three crashed UFOs was suspended on Saturday because no debris was found.
While a group of Illinois hobbyists reported their small "pico" balloons as "missing in action", US officials acknowledged that there was no evidence to suggest they were surveillance craft from China or any other country.