The “three unidentified objects” shot down by America over the weekend raised the alert level in America to a new level. After Beijing’s position on the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the rapprochement attempts and new tensions in the Indo-Pacific, tensions between the two superpowers are now rising again
With the trade conflict who already experienced a flare-up during administration Trump cardthe currently failed overture, to a Mediation in the Ukraine conflict and the Strategic warfare in the Indo-Pacificnow the tensions between the two main world powers, China And United States, are likely to experience another peak. With a new battlefield: the ‘near space’. Tensions sparked by the assassination of the Chinese spy balloon sighted South Carolina and that they gave birth to one exchange of allegations and attempts at it mutual humiliation in the diplomatic field. All also shaped by the mystery of the last few hours: three “unidentified objects” shot down in the sky over the weekendAlaskaadjacent to the Canada It runs Lake Huron.
These last three cases on which Washington She rushed to clarify that “there are no signs of it extraterrestrial activities‘ have raised the alert level in America to a new level. Neither the mechanisms of action nor the origin are currently known. Except that they have very different shapes and dimensions from the spy balloon attached by US defense systems and launched over the Atlantic, so it is very difficult at the moment to determine if that is actually the case Vehicles led by Beijing. If proven, it would be a major setback for Washington, and an important one show of force until People’s Republic which has been running an intensive program of for years global surveillance. The USA, for example, had already investigated in 2018 274 documented espionage cases Chinese around the world and with different methods. Today, with the identification of spy balloons and the hypothesis of the Chinese direction behind the new unidentified objects, Beijing would show it made one unprecedented leap in quality compared to competitors. However, espionage is not one-sided. Even Beijing has responded for the first time to statements from Washington that US balloons will not have flown illegally over China until 2022 more than ten times without permission from local authorities.
The espionage war between the People’s Republic and the States has been going on for years and the first consequences could be seen in terms of the conflict in Ukraine. After the explanation of “Friendship Without Borders” towards the Russia on the occasion of the inauguration of Olympic Winter Games in Beijingafterwards also for rash Xi JinpingChina then reduced its support for Moscow and backed the Federation’s grievances on the matter NATO expansion eastwardhowever, being careful never to become an active party in the ongoing conflict in the country of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. So much so that Beijing has also been considered in recent months possible intermediary between the parties given the influence exerted on Moscow and the support that the latter has received from an economic point of view, especially on theexport of raw materials. Bad new tensions in the Indo-Pacific, with the United States pursuing a strong anti-Chinese strategy, and these recent espionage incidents appear to distance the possibility of bringing Beijing to the table with Moscow, Kiev and NATO. On the contrary: the Ukrainian battlefield could become another map in the hands of the People’s Republic blackmail game triggered with Washington.