{"id":136822,"date":"2023-02-05T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136822"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:00:47","slug":"downed-spy-balloon-china-reserves-right-to-take-further-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136822","title":{"rendered":"Downed spy balloon, China reserves right to take further actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-on-Lantern-Festival-early-hours-by-US.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-on-Lantern-Festival-early-hours-by-US-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-on-Lantern-Festival-early-hours-by-US-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-on-Lantern-Festival-early-hours-by-US-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-on-Lantern-Festival-early-hours-by-US-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-on-Lantern-Festival-early-hours-by-US.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China responded to the downing of their spy balloon shortly after it floated over U.S. territorial waters. China posted an official response insisting that the balloon was a civilian aircraft for civilian use and was in U.S. air space as a result of variables out of their control.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The official Chinese statement (Google Translate):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US&#8217;s use of force to attack civilian unmanned airships. The Chinese side has repeatedly informed the US side after verification that the airship is for civilian use and entered the US due to force majeure, which was completely accidental. China clearly requires the US to handle it properly in a calm, professional and restrained manner. A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense also stated that the balloon will not pose a military or personal threat to ground personnel. Under such circumstances, the U.S. insists on using force, obviously overreacting and seriously violating international practice. China will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of relevant companies, while reserving the right to make further necessary reactions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information about this post could be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2023\/02\/04\/china-threatens-repercussions-for-downed-spy-balloon-reserves-the-right-to-take-further-actions-in-response\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down.html#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20foreign%20ministry%20declared%20its%20%E2%80%9Cstrong%20discontent,United%20States%20and%20its%20presence%20was%20%E2%80%9Ctotally%20accidental.%E2%80%9D\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.cn\/zyxw\/202302\/t20230205_11019861.shtml\">here<\/a>. The last link should be opened with Google Chrome for translation purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China responded to the downing of their spy balloon shortly after it floated over U.S. territorial &hellip; <a title=\"Downed spy balloon, China reserves right to take further actions\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136822\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Downed spy balloon, China reserves right to take further actions<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,296,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden","category-china","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}