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On February 13, 2023, John Kirby appeared with Karine Jean-Pierre at a press conference to “explain” in diplo-speak the reasons for our shooting down the Chinese spy balloon. At best, his remarks could be seen as attempts to mollify the PRC leadership that our shooting down of their balloon was not a hostile act, and in no way an accusation that they were engaged in wrongdoing. Rather, it was just a cautious step on our part, and a minimal response to concerns raised by various parties within our country. In shooting down their “balloon” (keeping in mind that balloons are not intrinsically bad or threatening) we have merely engaged in a minimal response, but we do not intend to feed into hysteria or accusations about the existence of “spying.” After all, we already know the Chinese have space satellites capable of spying, and we are not taking them down. It is not clear that the balloons transversing the USA are adding to the information provided by the pre-existent spy satellites, so we cannot and are not getting our noses out of joint about the balloons even though we shot the balloon down. However, at the same time, for security reasons Kirby said they are not…
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