United States President Joe Biden said “we are not looking for a new cold war” after the balloons shot down over the US raised tensions between the two countries.
| President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects to speak with China’s President Xi Jinping about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a US fighter jet shot down early this month after it transited the United States.Joe Biden said he wants authorities to develop “sharper rules” for dealing with the objects.downed by US fighters, did not say when he would speak with Mr Xi, but said the United States was continuing to engage diplomatically with China on the issue.
He said the US intelligence community was still trying to learn more about the three unidentified objects: one that was shot down over Alaska, one over Canada and a third that plunged into Lake Huron. The administration has said they were downed because they posed a threat to civil aviation. The incident prompted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone a planned visit to Beijing, where both sides had sought to stabilise already fraught relations.
It was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and American lawmakers have slammed the administration for letting it first drift across the country, including near sensitive military bases.Asked in advance about Mr Biden’s remarks, a China’s foreign ministry spokesman on Thursday once again referred to the downed balloon as an “unmanned civilian airship,” and said its flight into US airspace was an “isolated” incident.
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