China threatens US entities over balloon incident

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

6 minutes ago

BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast.

At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures.

China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting in bringing it down with a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet.

Since the Feb. 4 downing of the balloon, the United States has sanctioned six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/politics-japan-government-china-a9edd8db532f6cda9bace43b94051e7a

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. The CCP is going to do nothing of substance again. This is all about saving face and passing blame

They have been exposed constantly of making threats, failing to back up those threats, then trying to say they want to play peacemaker.

Anything a 2nd grade schoolyard bully would do the CCP will do. It isn't being strong, it's the appearance of being strong.

When Pelosi when to Taiwan, the CCP said it would retaliate violently and ending up shooting missiles into the ocean, killing fish and doing nothing about Pelosi.

Same with every arms deal with Taiwan.

All bark, no bite and the faster people realize China is the thinnest of paper tigers, the faster you will realize that their military is worse than the Russian military in Ukraine.

[IronLionZion]

2. They might arrest American citizens in China on trumped up charges

You and your family might want to get out while you can.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. The only thing trumped up is media hysteria in America. Remember the Dixie Chicks?

[IronLionZion]

8. Have you ever been to China?

I have. They are a very authoritarian country. It's not trumped up media hysteria.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. Never been to Dixie Chicks concert, but remember how hysterical America was over yellow cake?

The hysteria is over a single balloon…should lead to WAR!

Don’t be so gullible America, again!

[AZLD4Candidate]

18. Wendell Brown was railroaded into a Chinese prison after defending himself

against six chinese men who were angry a black man was with a chinese girl in a bar in chongqing. everything was caught on camera.

Please. Just stop!

Each post shows you are either a CCP propagandist or are a Jimmy Dore type.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. Opinions are free, knowing the facts is costlier.

[AZLD4Candidate]

23. I live in China. Except for four years, I have since 2008. Do you?

No, you don't. You know not of what you speak.

[yaesu]

3. They could raise the prices of balloons in all the chinamarts in the country

destroy the party industry

[SouthernDem4ever]

6. Yes, I already bought a years supply before the shortages at party city

[IronLionZion]

9. Biden inflation is raising the price of balloons!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Like someone other nation recently...offered no details and only called them objects.

America sanctions, other nations threaten, AP uses different words. See the difference!?

The difference is hypocrisy.

[mainer]

7. It appears China was telling the truth about weather diverting balloon

It was never meant to fly over the continental US.

By the time a Chinese spy balloon crossed into American airspace late last month, U.S. military and intelligence agencies had been tracking it for nearly a week, watching as it lifted off from its home base on Hainan Island near China’s south coast.

U.S. monitors watched as the balloon settled into a flight path that would appear to have taken it over the U.S. territory of Guam. But somewhere along that easterly route, the craft took an unexpected northern turn, according to several U.S. officials, who said that analysts are now examining the possibility that China didn’t intend to penetrate the American heartland with its airborne surveillance device.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/14/china-spy-balloon-path-tracking-weather/

[oldsoftie]

11. But later they said it was maneuverable.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Later the Pentagon admitted they been tracking it for days! But the hysteria was too valuable!

That’s in the post we just read above!?

[oldsoftie]

20. Literally meaningless response.

Maybe learn from those who liver there or have lived there.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. Yup, it was maneuverable

"As of noon today, the maneuverable Chinese surveillance balloon, which was over Montana yesterday, was at an altitude of about 60,000 feet and floating over the center of the continental United States"

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3288103/general-says-chinese-surveillance-balloon-now-over-center-of-us/#:~:text=As%20of%20noon%20today%2C%20the,on%20the%20ground%2C%20said%20the

[Alexander Of Assyria]

21. Good thing it wasn't shot down over the vast metropolis of Montana and the Dakota's!

Could have fallen on a herd of cattle if the Pentagon not careful!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. The slow slow walk back to the truth begins....finally!

[NickB79]

22. Weather diverted their SPY balloon, that was meant to SPY over Guam

China said "Weather diverted our entirely innocuous weather balloon from Guam to the US."

Your link says "Weather diverted the Chinese spy balloon from Guam to the US."

The fact that it wasn't quite maneuverable enough to battle a strong jet stream isn't much to hang one's hat on when it comes to telling the truth. In both cases, China flat-out lied about the intent of the balloon, which is the meat of the matter.

[AZLD4Candidate]

24. Possibility, not fact.

[oldsoftie]

13. MORE reason to get out of China. Like we dont already have enough reason.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. Looks like balloon scientists in both nations sanctioned! Cut off all trade! Prepare the torpedoes!

Really?

[AllaN01Bear]

16. considering that the chinese invaded our air space and was snooping,,,

[Alexander Of Assyria]

25. Invaded...?? Well, got 4 «kills»! Words still have meaning, somewhere.

[sakabatou]

26. "Oh, I'm sorry, were we supposed to let your spy balloon over the country?"