Communist China’s new claim that the United States sent 10 balloons into its territory throughout last year is being dismissed by U.S. officials as false.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin asserted during a Feb. 13 press conference that U.S. balloons illegally entered Chinese airspace 10 times throughout 2022.
The claim was immediately dismissed by National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby.
“Not true. Not doing it. Just absolutely not true,” Kirby said during a Feb. 13 interview with MSNBC.
“We are not flying balloons over China.”
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) claim follows two weeks of international fallout after one of the regime’s spy balloons flew over the continental United States, approaching several sites linked to the U.S. military’s nuclear facilities….