Column: Chinese balloon is gone, but it’s still making U.S.-China relations harder to manage
1 year, 10 months ago

Column: Chinese balloon is gone, but it’s still making U.S.-China relations harder to manage

LA Times  

A U.S. fighter jet shot down the large Chinese balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina on Feb. 4. The incident, and the larger Chinese program it revealed, is a serious obstacle to one of Biden’s top foreign policy goals: stabilizing the prickly U.S. relationship with Beijing. China insisted the vehicle was a civilian weather balloon and demanded its return, accusing the United States of “political manipulation.” If the objects shot down off Alaska on Friday and over the Canadian Yukon on Saturday turn out to be more Chinese balloons, or if the U.S. Navy fishes surveillance equipment from the ocean off South Carolina, Beijing will only look guiltier. The Biden administration has asked China for assurances that the recent balloon flight will be the last, apparently as a condition for rescheduling Blinken’s visit. Our interest in managing the high-stakes competition with China is much larger than a balloon — even one big enough to carry three busloads’ worth of spyware.

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