The photo is taken from the cockpit of an American military verkenningsvliegentuig. One day later, the American plane was flying from the Chinese balloon near the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of the state of South Carolina.
A week ago the balloon was thrown away. “Het biggest deel van de ballon, including de lading, is safe”, says Pentagon-woordvoerster Sabrina Singh Wednesday. Ze wilde geen verdere Details geven over de analysis van de Brokstukken. The analysis is in the hands of the Amerikaanse federale politie FBI.
The VS accuse China of using military installations to spy on China. Peking remains here that het om wetenschappelijk onderzoek went, and that the balloon per ongeluk van koers afraakt.
Het incident veroorzaakt extra spaningen in de al moeilijke relation tussen de twee lands. The American Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zaken Antony Blinken, in China’s top priority for foreign countries, Wang Yi, will open another weekend in the margin of the Public Health Conference in Munich.
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