Espionage The new game of the old spy game between China and the United States
The Chinese spy balloon that the United States shot down on Saturday
was the fourth to violate US airspace
, the US Defense Department has reported.
The other three cases, of which the authorities have not provided more information, occurred during the presidency of Donald Trump.
The country's then highest president decided to keep the incidents secret.
Biden's team has admitted that those Chinese
visits
were shorter than this one, in which the balloon walked around his house like Pedro thanks to its artificial intelligence-controlled navigation devices above the US for four days.
That again raises the question of why Beijing has carried out this operation.
Is it a provocation, an attempt to test US air defenses, a way to assess the political will of the
Joe Biden government
?
No one seems to have the answer to those questions.
What is clear is that this diplomatic crisis has derailed Washington's plans for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to achieve this week a reduction in Chinese support for Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, and a certain détente in the Straits. from Taiwan.
In the three cases in which the balloons violated US airspace with Trump, they did so over more or less peripheral or coastal areas of the country.
One of the places where one of these
astrostats
was observed -which is the name these aerostats receive due to the high altitude at which they operate- was the island of
Guam
, in the Marianas (a former Spanish colony that, paradoxically, still being it from the legal point of view, since there is no agreement between Madrid and Washington that ratifies the change of sovereignty).
In Guam, the United States has one of its largest air bases in the world, as well as a military port with the capacity to accommodate submarines and atomic aircraft carriers.
In total, one third of the island is in the hands of the US Department of Defense.
Another high-altitude balloon (HAB) was sighted in Hawaii, the archipelago from which, along with Guam, the US coordinates its military presence in the Pacific.
The third point is Florida.
In all three cases, according to the information transmitted by the Pentagon,
the balloons disappeared before they could be intercepted
.
Similar ships have been detected over Japan and in the vicinity of Taiwan.
The revelation made seems to be a response to criticism from some members of the Republican Party, starting with Donald Trump himself, who demanded that the balloon be shot down immediately.
The former president has denied that these incidents had occurred.
John Bolton, who was his National Security adviser for 16 months before becoming one of Trump's biggest critics, has stated that during his term in office no Chinese or other balloons violated US airspace.
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