Cock-up or conspiracy, the spy balloon saga highlights real danger posed by China 💬 Michael Day
in the Pacific, some near Hawaii, where the US Indo-Pacific Command is based along with much of the naval capability and surveillance gear of the Pacific Fleet.
This raises the question of whether the US failed to react sternly enough to the previous incursions. “The fact that they have come into airspace before is not comforting,” said Amy Zegart, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told the New York Times. “We should have had a strategy earlier,” she said, and “we should have signalled our limits much earlier.”
Whether it was intended to do so, the spy balloon row has distracted the world’s media from the mass trial of 47 democracy advocates under Hong Kong’s odious new national security law; the hearing is described by Amnesty International as an “obscenely unjust political trial”.was imminent. Rana Mitter, an expert on China at Oxford University notes that th Beijing “is clearly keen to engage in temperature-lowering discussions” on core issues including chip supplies and Taiwan.
In December the US Indo-Pacific Command accused the Chinese military of an “unsafe manoeuvre” that allowed a Chinese fighter plane to
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