The US government has finally decided shoot down chinese spy balloon It has been flying over the United States for days and was first detected over Montana, near a base that houses intercontinental missiles.
Although the Biden administration initially limited itself to monitoring the device, it has finally decided shoot it down when it has positioned itself in US territorial waters.
The Chinese regime, which on Friday ended up admitting that the balloon was its own, alleging that it was dedicated to meteorological tasks and ended up in the US by mistake, has reacted by transferring a “strong protest” for what happened and accusing the US government of “overreacting”. In a statement, China insists on the version that it was a civilian device and it was all an accident, something that, they argue, they would have repeatedly transferred to the Biden administration.
China asked the US “to handle the situation in a calm and professional manner,” they point out in the note, where they state that they “will safeguard the legitimate rights and interests” of the companies related to the device and they reserve their right to “a subsequent reaction”.
Meanwhile, the US government has no doubt that it was a spy device: the balloon, which crossed the whole country from coast to coastwas being used by the Chinese dictatorship to “monitor strategic locations in the continental United States,” said US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
According to the Pentagon, President Joe Biden had given the order to shoot down the balloon as soon as it was possible to do so without risk, something that finally happened when it was located over the Atlantic. The operation has been carried out in coordination with Canada, through which the spy device also moved.
Members of the Navy and the Coast Guard are participating in the operation to collect the remains, who have secured the area and are now trying to recover the parts of the device, which would be about fourteen meters deep.
The remains will be transferred to an FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, where they will be analyzed by intelligence experts. Sources quoted by CNN insist that they are “sure” that the spy device was looking for “sensitive information” from military sites americans.