Air Balloon and U.S.-China Relations

The US was ill-prepared for a tough standoff with a superpower boasting comparable might, once the latter stopped playing at giveaway The story of the Chinese Automatic Drifting Balloon (ADB) violating the U.S. airspace in late January–early February 2023 will be a symbolic marker for a new phase of deterioration in the US-China relations. The relations were rapidly eroding throughout 2022 and early 2023. In some aspects, U.S.-China ...