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U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines. Washington’s evolving view reflects U.S. and Chinese difficulties in discerning each other’s intention…
A Times diplomatic correspondent was looking forward to a trip back to Beijing, until an international crisis erupted.
A big white orb has pushed the rival superpowers back to diplomatic distance, showing that peace may be frighteningly fragile.
Chinese military scientists have been looking for ways to make them more durable, harder to detect and even to serve as platforms that fire advanced weapons.
Mr. Biden is proud of reshaping foreign policy to focus on superpower conflict, but knows it is jobs and energy prices that voters want to hear about.
Chinese propaganda also appears to be walking a fine line: looking tough for the crowd at home, without further derailing relations with the United States.
The flap with the United States raises concerns about how China wields its power in a climate where one wrong move could set off an accidental conflict.
There is nothing new about superpowers spying on one another, even from balloons. But for pure gall, there was something different this time.
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Beijing registered “strong discontent and protest.” But there may be little it can do to retaliate.