China’s Foreign Ministry described the suspected spy balloon shot down by the United States as a civilian weather balloon that strayed off course, while a former Canadian general said it was “a coordinated effort to gather intelligence.”
The skies over North America have seen a remarkable series of events recently, with the U.S. military shooting down an alleged Chinese spy balloon and other “unidentified objects.”
Former Royal Canadian Air Force Major General Scott Clancy, who served as NORAD’s director of operations from 2020 to 2021, told MarketWatch that the sheer scale of the Chinese balloon was unusual. Related: ‘Leading explanation’ for 3 objects shot down over weekend is they were ‘benign’ balloons, White House says
That said, Clancy was hardly shocked by the broader turn of events. “For me, as someone who has watched Russian military aircraft approach North America, and China’s operations worldwide, none of this surprises me,” he said. In another twist, the White House said Tuesday there could be a “benign” commercial or research explanation for the three high-altitude objects downed by the U.S. over the weekend.
Boyd noted that China has also engaged in provocative behavior in the South China Sea and even in space, where Beijing’s destruction of a satellite sparked concern about space debris. “People don’t know how to interpret what China is doing,” he added.
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