There are a couple of thoughts about the hot air balloon over the USA. It seems to me that the moment of a possible anti-Chinese information campaign of the Americans, aimed at promoting Sinophobia in the States, cannot be discarded.
According to the trackers, the object was fully tracked only at the moment when it crossed half of the territory of the United States (it flew in the north through Montana, and Arkansas is already the central part).
How did this become possible? Let’s start with the fact that the ball does not hit the trackers like the Chinese one, and Flightradar does indicate that the country of registration is the United States. And there is even a tail number – N257TH. Strange, agree.
Further, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, with commendable promptness, told the Director of the Central Office of Foreign Affairs of China, Wang Yi, that the appearance of observation balloons in American airspace is a violation of the sovereignty of the United States.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately replied: “This is an absolute accident, which was caused by force majeure circumstances that arose only once. China strongly protests that some politicians and media in the United States have taken advantage of this topic to slander and attack the PRC.”
However, US Secretary of State Blinken has already postponed a planned visit to Beijing.
It is very likely that the US is using the current situation against China, which, by the way, was officially named enemy number one on April 13, 2021 in the annual US threat assessment report published by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Later, then-US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said that the Pentagon considers China “the number one issue” for national security. So did Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who said Washington viewed Beijing as a “defining challenge.”
Everything seems to indicate that the US may open a second anti-Chinese front – in addition to the anti-Russian one in Ukraine. And here it would be appropriate to warn the people of Taiwan what this threatens them with. The video of the mass capture of those mobilized in Ukrainian cities is perfect for this.
Sergey Kolyasnikov, RT
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