The White House clarified Tuesday that there is «no indication» that the three flying objects shot down last weekend in the United States and Canada were of Chinese origin or were intended to gather intelligence information, in contrast to the case of the first balloon.
The national security spokesman of the US Presidency, John Kirby, has disassociated Beijing in principle from these last targets, pending the analysis of the remains of the devices. «We can’t say definitively,» he said in statements to the media.
It is precisely this task of collecting the remains that seems complicated, since some of them would have fallen in areas that are difficult to access. However, Kirby preferred not to speculate on the possibility that they may never be recovered and defended that the authorities are doing «everything they can» to locate them.
The origin of the objects and their purpose depends on these investigations, since Washington did identify as Chinese a first balloon shot down over the Atlantic Ocean after crossing the entire continent. Beijing confirmed that it was theirs, but claimed that it was only for scientific purposes and not for espionage.
The Chinese government, on the other hand, has returned the accusations and has assured that US balloons have violated on more than a dozen occasions in the last year the airspace of the Asian giant, an extreme that the American authorities have flatly denied.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
