US not looking for conflict with China, says Joe Biden amid spy balloon row

By India Today Web Desk: President Joe Biden has stated the United States isn’t always searching out war with China no matter tensions over the suspected undercover agent balloon from China that turned into shot down through fighter jets off the Carolina Coast on Sunday.

China insists the balloon turned into simply undertaking climate studies however the Pentagon defined it as a high-tech spying operation. The US Navy is convalescing balloon particles from the Atlantic Ocean to examine the “intelligence-series pod.”

The balloon floated at an altitude some distance better than maximum airplanes and crossed without delay over at the least one touchy US army site.

Joe Biden turned into requested approximately the undercover agent balloon episode in an interview with the PBS network.

He stated, “We`re going to compete completely with China, however we are now no longer searching out war and that is been the case so some distance.”

Biden’s remarks reputedly sought to defuse tensions after China warned of a “essential response” for overreacting” to a “civilian airship” that by chance strayed into the United States.

Asked if the incident had prompted main harm to the connection with Beijing, Biden stated “no.” The undercover agent balloon turned into detected days in advance of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s go to to Beijing. Blinken postponed the experience after the Pentagon stated it turned into certain the white orb floating over Montana turned into a undercover agent balloon from China.