US shoots down Chinese “Spy” baloon.

As the American Navy sought to salvage debris to learn more about what the Pentagon claims was a spy craft, Beijing has criticised the US decision to fire down a Chinese balloon that sailed over the nation.

The USS Carter Hall, a ship with a landing dock, and two destroyers, the USS Oscar Austin and USS Philippine Sea, were reportedly involved in a retrieval mission off the coast of South Carolina.

After the balloon was shot down by an American F-22 fighter jet using a Sidewinder missile, Beijing accused the United States of “seriously violating international conventions” and reiterated that its assertion that the balloon was for “civil use” and had deviated from its intended path due to bad weather.

In order to deal with such circumstances, the Chinese defence ministry stated that it will reserve “the right to use the necessary means.”

The balloon crashed into American territorial seas at 2.39 PM on Saturday after an air-to-air missile from an F-22 Raptor was shot at it while it was six nautical miles off the coast and in US airspace.

Democrats applauded President Joe Biden on Sunday for directing the military to shoot the balloon down.

According to Jack Reed, the Democratic Senate armed services committee chair, “President Biden made the appropriate decision to fire down this purported Chinese spy balloon out of range of American civilians and infrastructure.”

Republicans questioned Biden, however, as to why he did not direct the military to take action before the balloon, which entered US airspace above Alaska on January 28, flew over important military installations.

According to Mike Turner, chairman of the House intelligence committee, “taking it down over the Atlantic is kind of like tackling the quarterback after the game is finished.” “The satellite’s speed mission was accomplished. It shouldn’t have been permitted to enter the US at all.

Defence officials said that the risk to civilians prevented them from bringing the balloon down over land. But they said that when it traversed North America, the US had tracked its progress and obtained intelligence on it.

One senior defence source added, “What has not been realised is that this actually gave us with a number of days to evaluate this balloon and… learn a lot about what this balloon was doing, how it was doing it.”

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