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Quite the grand statement “Any increase in China’s strength is an increase in the hope of peace for humanity.” - Wang Yi
Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, People's Republic of China, #msc2023
*Very* univocal statement by Wang Yi on #balloongate: civilian balloon which veered off course. US response was “absurd and hysterical”, “100% abuse of the use of force”. “We do not accept this.” US reaction “does not show that US is strong, on the contrary it shows the opposite”
Shooting down the balloon was “preposterous”, an action “to divert attention from US domestic problems”.
No room for interpretation here.
#msc2023
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1) Wow!

Part 1 - Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Pentagon Press Secretary, John F. Kirby.

I'll ignore the ET joke and laughter at the top. JFC.

2:58-3:49 Kirby: "The president also instructed the intelligence community to take a youtube.com/live/3GQmzVDJI…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2) Biden conducted a briefing on UAP in June of 2021? This was him on May 22nd, 2021
3) Kirby Pt. 2: Media Q & A

#uaptwitter #ufotwitter #balloongate #Balloon

5:45-6:26 Why are we seeing more? Filters & gains of radar capabilities have been modified to look more discreetly at high-altitude, small, radar cross section & low-speed objects.

9:22-9:59 Kirby… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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ÚLTIMA HORA: Ha aparecido un nuevo #NOTAM a 28 km al WSW de Tobermory en Ontario, Canadá.
Esto se debe a una "operación de defensa aérea activa"
#ovni #ufotwitter #Balloon #Globos
El E-3B Sentry de la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. parece haberse desviado de sus "pistas de carreras" y parece dirigirse rápidamente hacia el nuevo NOTAM.
#ovni #ufotwitter #BALLON #BallonGate #globosonda #GloboChino
NOTAM ahora es visible en el mapa notammap.com
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NEW: A NOTAM was placed with flight restrictions in north central Montana calling it a "National Defense Airspace." This is until further notice, issued at 00:20z (06:20 p.m. central time)
A USAF Stratotanker is in the area doing laps. #BalloonGate continued?
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#Balloongate shows that Chinese messaging still has a ways to go to set the tone of global conversations, even on stories convcerning China directly. It also provides yet another example of Sino-Russian convergence in the information space.
Significance of #balloongate took authorities by surprise. #ChineseFM's statement deploring US overreaction only came on Sunday and spokesperson still seemed thrown off by questions at today's press conference.
Seems like a lost opportunity as Chinese diplomatic & state media's accounts reactions to the incident generated very high engagement. 4 of 5 most shared tweets in the last week are about the incident.
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