At a briefing on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin repeated Beijing’s view that the Chinese aircraft downed by a US jet off the South Carolina coast this month had inadvertently floated over the country after being blown off course. He criticised the Biden administration’s decision to take it out and later sanction Chinese companies, saying the moves would have consequences.
“China is strongly opposed to this and will take countermeasures against relevant US entities that have undermined our sovereignty and security to firmly safeguard our sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests,” Wang said. Some of the 10 US balloons that Beijing says travelled over China since May last year passed over Xinjiang and Tibet, Wang added. Those are two regions in China’s far west where the government is accused by the US and other nations of human rights violations against minorities, charges Beijing denies.to an export blacklist last week over what it argues are links to a military-backed global balloon espionage programme.
The ministry has never published the details of the list or announced that any company was added to it. There’s been no public use of the rules to punish foreign firms.China and the US had appeared to be trying to move on from the dispute. The US said on Tuesday that three other objects downed by American jets over the past week served commercial purposes and weren’t used for spying.
It remains to be seen if the latest back-and-forth will prevent a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference this week. Blinken had cancelled a planned trip to Beijing this month when the initial balloon controversy erupted.
Absolutely stunning amnesia by the US which claims it is under attack by China. One can only marvel in awe at such jaw dropping hypocrisy.
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