{"id":14259,"date":"2023-02-07T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2023-06-26T05:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:26:49","slug":"puncturing-ties-on-china-u-s-spy-balloon-row","status":"publish","type":"editorial-analysis","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/editorial-analysis\/puncturing-ties-on-china-u-s-spy-balloon-row","title":{"rendered":"Puncturing ties: On China-U.S. \u2018spy balloon\u2019 row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shooting down of a Chinese surveillance balloon by the US military has <\/span><b>highlighted the deep distrust <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between the world&#8217;s two largest powers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Impact of Controversy:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Cancellation of Visit:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The controversy over the balloon caused a diplomatic crisis and led to the cancellation of the highly anticipated visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The response of the Biden administration to cancel\u00a0 the Blinken visit, reflects the status of China as a<\/span><b> hot-button issue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in US politics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>China\u2019s Stand:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beijing has maintained that the balloon was \u201ccivilian\u201d (meteorology), but had drifted off-course. It also slammed the move to shoot it down as an overreaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Previous Incidents in involving China\u2019s Surveillance:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. officials have acknowledged this was by no means the first such surveillance balloon spotted over American skies; there was a similar incident under the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balloons were also spotted over Japan in 2020 and 2021, and over India\u2019s Andaman Islands last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Dialing Down Tensions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>2001<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the U.S. and China were able to dial down tensions after a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet over Hainan island in China.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing US-China relations has become more difficult, and finding a solution in the event of a future crisis will be more challenging given the charged political climate and growing rivalry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editrial\/puncturing-ties\/article66478025.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hindu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: The shooting down of a Chinese surveillance balloon by the US military has highlighted the deep distrust between the world&#8217;s two largest powers.\u00a0 Impact of Controversy: Cancellation of Visit:\u00a0 The controversy over the balloon caused a diplomatic crisis and led to the cancellation of the highly anticipated visit of US Secretary of State Antony&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/editorial-analysis\/puncturing-ties-on-china-u-s-spy-balloon-row\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puncturing ties: On China-U.S. \u2018spy balloon\u2019 row<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[451,449,450],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/14259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/editorial-analysis"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/14259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}