When White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ruled out the extraterrestrial option Monday night to clear up part of the mystery surrounding the unidentified flying objects shot down over the past weekend, blares blared in the background. the laughter of some journalists present in the room. Jean-Pierre even joked about his love for E.T., the Steven Spielberg film, in a crisis between China and the US that, far from being a joke, is still open and about which President Joe Biden continues without speaking directly, despite the barrage of criticism from the Republican caucus.
Yes indeed. The Democratic president announced Monday the creation of a team to thoroughly investigate the objects and determine their mission, as well as the true risk to national security. At the moment, the explanation given by the US intelligence services is that the three objects - the first shot down on Friday over Alaska, the second on Saturday in the Canadian Yukon, and the third last Sunday over Lake Huron - were "benign ", with no apparent danger from a military point of view but a risk to commercial aircraft from flying at a similar altitude.
This was confirmed on Tuesday by John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, who also ruled out that the objects belong to the US government or that there were indications that they are part of the Chinese espionage program, as is suspected of the first balloon shot down by a fighter. last Saturday, February 4 and which began the current crisis and the subsequent crossing of accusations between both superpowers.
However, some conservatives do not seem entirely satisfied. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, took the opportunity to throw a dart at Biden. "The President owes the American people some answers," he said from the Upper House. "What are we shooting down? Where are they coming from? Whether they're hostile or not, is there a coherent guide for when to shoot them down?...How did we get to a position where the world's most important nation doesn't know what's going on?" through our own airspace?"
More dovish was former presidential candidate Mitt Romney's stance following a classified briefing by all senators Tuesday morning. The Utah senator said he has "not the slightest doubt" that the downed objects do not pose a threat to the American people. "There are a lot of these things that are on the air from time to time, some commercial, some government and maybe there are some things that we don't know about," he said.
Meanwhile, work continues to recover the three downed objects, although Washington and Ottawa have indicated that they may not be able to find them. The fact that it fell on a remote and mountainous area in the Yukon, and on the frozen waters of Alaska and Lake Huron next to Michigan, have made the search for the remains very difficult. Kirby spoke of "pretty tough conditions" for the time of year and that the government is relying on the information and expertise of the Federal Aviation Administration and the intelligence community to learn what they can about the mysterious devices.
"We don't have any evidence at this time to confirm that, in fact, the objects were collecting intelligence from another government," he said. Just a Pentagon report indicating that the object detected over Canadian skies on Saturday was a "small metallic balloon with a payload tethered below it."
The alarm unleashed in the corridors of the Capitol in Washington has not gone unnoticed in China, where they brand their main rival in the geopolitical arena as "immature and irresponsible", even "hysterical", after running into the balloon that the communist regime assures that only served a meteorological type mission.
They also believe that the "excessive" reaction of the Biden government is just a way of demonstrating its ability to respond to the Asian giant in front of the Republicans, without any mention of the blow that the downing of its spy balloon in front of the South Carolina shores for its credibility with the international community. This despite the evidence that exists against him about airships with surveillance equipment flying over several continents.
Chinese President Xi Jinping remains committed to showing the world that "Chinese-style modernization" is the new model of progress for humanity to follow in the face of the decadent Western proposal. He made it clear in a speech last week.
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