Several China experts predicted what Beijing's next move would be after their spy balloon that flew across America over several days was blown up by the U.S. military on Saturday.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Heino Klinck told Fox News Digital in a Saturday phone interview that the CCP will"accuse the United States of being provocative and taking kinetic action to remove this Chinese aircraft from American airspace.
"Rhetorically, it may be aggressive, but they're not going to take physical action. Again, it's their norm to try to shift blame," Klinck said. "So I don't think we can put off our preparations until 2025 or 2027 or 2049," Klinck said."We need to be ready today." "I don’t think this fundamentally changes the two sides’ leverage vis-a-vis one another," Cooper continued."But it could be hard to reschedule the visit in the near term given Blinken’s busy schedule and the upcoming NPC meeting."
Former Trump administration Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. James Anderson told Fox News Digital that"China will continue to claim that the United States ‘overreacted’ in shooting down the spy balloon." Several Republicans in both chambers of Congress torched President Biden after the balloon was shot down, with many taking aim at the president’s sluggish timeline to take down the CCP spyware.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
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