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

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

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