The White House sought Tuesday to take the air out of an escalating diplomatic crisis with Beijing, saying that preliminary evidence suggests three unidentified aerial objects shot down by US jets were not involved in a broader Chinese spy balloon program.
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In the wake of the incident, the US military adjusted radar settings to detect smaller objects and promptly discovered three more unidentified craft that President Joe Biden ordered shot down — one over Alaska, another over Canada and the third over Lake Huron off Michigan. Kirby said they “could be balloons that were simply tied to commercial or research entities and therefore benign.”White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged that the ownership of the three objects remains unknown but “we do want to make sure that the Americans, American people, understand that there’s no need to panic.”
The spat has already inflicted diplomatic damage between the rival superpowers, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly canceling a rare visit to Beijing.Kirby stressed that China is running a “well funded, deliberate program” to use high-altitude, hard-to-detect balloons for spying on the United States and other countries.
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