A Chinese hot air balloon over Montana. The American military commands are on alert, reporting the unfortunate intruder in the airspace. China immediately ran for cover, reporting that it was a normal civilian aircraft for meteorological studies, which got out of control.
The Pentagon wanted to destroy it but the fear of falling debris made the military give up. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Blinken has canceled a visit scheduled for today to the People's Republic. The reason for the visit was peaceful: to meet President Xi to begin a process of détente and find solutions to the conflict in Ukraine, the South China Sea and the disputed island of Taiwan. Lapidary is the American message entrusted to the State Department: "the visit to Beijing will take place when conditions permit”.
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Thursday evening the strange aircraft flew at high altitude over an American area where 150 silos of intercontinental ballistic missiles are kept.
The Chief of the Joint Staff (equivalent to our Chief of Smd), General Milley he had reported to the president Biden to the Secretary of State flash that the defending forces could immediately shoot down the intruder. The fear that the debris could have impacted the ground and covered inhabited areas made the soldiers give up and only followed the balloon's route step by step.
In the afternoon, the Beijing Foreign Ministry publicly admitted that the aircraft was Chinese, specifying that it was civilian and used for meteorological research purposes.
The winds, say the Chinese they would have pushed him off course, and with his limited directional capabilities he could not avoid encroaching on American airspace, due to force majeure.
Without hesitation, Blinken canceled the trip because, according to the experts, an aerostatic balloon may seem like a rudimentary espionage tool, but Beijing has already used them on Tibet and Taiwan.