“Senior American officers more and more consider the Chinese language spy balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina in early February was initially presupposed to conduct surveillance over U.S. army bases in Guam and Hawaii, however winds carried it astray to Alaska, Canada and at last the continental United States,” the New York Occasions reviews.

“The evolution of Washington’s understanding of the Chinese language army’s authentic objectives and new particulars that reveal misreadings of the U.S. response by Chinese language officers in personal conferences replicate how tough it’s for the USA and China to discern one another’s intentions — a niche that American officers worry might result in better distrust in an already fraught relationship and even to armed battle.”

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