(Aboard Air Force One) The United States is “in discussions with [leurs] allies and partners” about the “fleet” of spy balloons that they say China has deployed around the world in recent years, the White House spokeswoman said Wednesday.
“Chinese balloons have been observed over countries on five continents” of which they have “violated the sovereignty”, indicated Karine Jean-Pierre, from the plane which takes President Joe Biden for a trip to Wisconsin (north ).
On Saturday, the United States shot down a Chinese aircraft that was flying over its territory.
Washington has since assured that China was not at its first attempt, and counted that Beijing had sent three aircraft for brief incursions into American skies during Donald Trump’s presidency, and already one at the start of the term. by Joe Biden.
China, for its part, strongly condemned the destruction of the balloon, according to it a “civilian aircraft used for research purposes, mainly meteorological”, which had entered “involuntarily” into American airspace.