There's a rule in Washington that the political left has employed with particular effectiveness in recent years: Blame your opponent for the thing you are doing.
I guess the Chinese have been watching as American lefties accuse their political enemies of:
- Colluding with Russia while they collude with Russia
- Quid pro quo in Ukraine while they ask for quid pro quo in Ukraine
- Fascism, while using government alliances with corporations to censor and punish dissidents
- Hyperbole, while telling everyone the world will blow up in 6 years from farting cows
- Misinformation, while peddling three-years' worth of false allegations surrounding an entire pandemic
- Religious extremism, while they force your child to pledge allegiance to the trans flag
- Violence, while they literally burn down cities and chant "no USA at all" in the streets
- Murder, while they advocate for killing preborn kids
China's Foreign Ministry on Monday said the United States has sent at least 10 unsanctioned balloons into Chinese airspace since last year, as the two countries feud over a Chinese airship discovered and shot down by the U.S. military earlier this month. The United States denied the allegation.
Hitting back at allegations that Beijing had used the balloon, discovered floating over the western United States, for surveillance, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a press briefing that it was "common" for U.S. high-altitude balloons to fly into other countries' airspace.
"The United States should first reflect on itself and change course, rather than slander, discredit or incite confrontation," Wang said.
See? Straight out of the ol' "deflect and project" playbook.
The U.S doesn't need to use low-tech balloon to conduct surveillance.
You want to know why?
When asked whether any of the other objects downed by the U.S. military had come from China, Wang declined to answer, noting only that "irresponsible remarks should not be made without clear evidence."
I absolutely love these guys!
Out here beating Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and AOC at their own lying game.
The United States denied Wang's assertion just a few hours later in a White House statement describing "any claim that the US government operates surveillance balloons" over China as false.
"This is the latest example of China scrambling to do damage control. It has repeatedly and wrongly claimed the surveillance balloon it sent over the United States was a weather balloon and to this day has failed to offer any credible explanations for its intrusion into our airspace and the airspace of others," said spokeswoman Adrienne Watson.
But China isn't gonna back down. They have plans – the type of societal plans we once had many moons ago. They're going for broke, my friends.
On Monday, Wang accused the United States of being the world's largest "surveillance empire."
They just can't stop!
