What could the Chinese stratospheric balloon spotted in the cerulean skies of Montana be interested in?
Perhaps to the 150 intercontinental nuclear missiles stored by the United States in this Northwestern state?
At the very least, it is very clumsy on the part of the Chinese regime to have been caught red-handed: Washington has no problem
"postponing"
the visit to Beijing of its Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who was intended to appease the rivalry between the two leading world powers.
The Pentagon has decided not to destroy the spy balloon, the size of three buses, for the moment, because its debris could cause civilian damage.
But will he let him go as he came?
It seems unlikely.
The incident is in any case revealing of the cold war climate that prevails between China and the United States.
The conflict in Ukraine, omnipresent on our European radars, would tend to make us forget that, for Washington, the systemic rival is not...
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