The American president said on Thursday that he was planning to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, about the shot down which, according to Washington, carried out a spy mission.
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The American president, Joe Biden, addressed the Americans for the first time since the United States killed a Chinese ball and three unidentified flying objects in the sky of North America, Thursday, February 16.
Joe Biden explained that he was planning to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, but that he would not apologize for having made a Chinese ball who entered the United States, which, According to Washington, carried out a spy mission. “We do not want a new cold war” and “will continue to speak with China,” he said. “I hope to be able to speak with President XI and go to the bottom of this case, but I do not apologize for having had this ball kill,” he added.
The destruction of the aircraft, which Beijing describes as a weather research tank that has unintentionally derived in American airspace, sends “a clear message”, judged Joe Biden, that “any violation of our sovereignty is inadmissible “.
“If an object [flying] represents a threat to the security of the Americans, I will make him shoot down,” said the American president.
incerity on the nature of the other three objects killed
Joe Biden said that the intelligence services were still looking to obtain more information on three unidentified objects having flown in the American territory and killed by American aviation-one above Alaska , another above Canada and finally a third above Lake Huron on the American-Canadian border. “We do not yet know exactly what these objects were, but for the moment nothing suggests that they were linked to the Chinese balloon spy program or to surveillance activities of any other country,” said the American president.
“These three objects are probably linked to private companies, leisure activities or” scientific research, said the American president. “We have no evidence that there was a sudden increase in the number of objects in the” American, he said, “but we see them more” due in particular to a change in Radar parameters.
The president claims to have asked his administration to draw up a “best inventory” of flying objects in the American sky, and indicates that it has established a dialogue with the Allies of the United States on the spy program that China leads according to him.