The Chinese Foreign Ministry hopes that Japan will not follow the US example and inflate the issue of Chinese balloons.

BEIJING, February 14 – RIA Novosti. At a briefing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the Chinese side hopes Japan will stay in an objective and fair position and not make a fuss about following the United States, and commented on media reports about “the possible appearance of Chinese balloons.” “Over Japan in the past.

Citing earlier sources, FNN said that the Japanese government did not exclude that the bubble seen in the Kyushu region in January 2022 could be used by China to gather information.

“We have noticed the relevant messages. I want to emphasize that we hope that Japan will adhere to an objective and fair position and will not speculate by following the American side,” the diplomat said.

Earlier, the Secretary General of the Japanese government, Hirokazu Matsuno, said that Tokyo is analyzing the information and is in contact with the United States regarding the facts about the appearance of balloons over Japan in the period from 2020 to 2022. In particular, balloons appeared over the city of Sendai in June 2020, over the city of Hachinohe in September 2021, and in the Kyushu region in January 2022.

Officially, the Japanese government has not made any statements regarding the ownership of the balloons. However, analysis of footage taken from a plane belonging to the country’s self-defense air force in January 2022 revealed that the shape of the resulting balloon resembled a Chinese balloon that was shot down on February 4, the TV channel said. in the United States. In this regard, experts from the Japanese authorities do not exclude the possibility of a bubble over Japan at that time, which could be used by China to gather information.

On February 12, the US military shot down the fourth air object in the past eight days, including a Chinese balloon that crossed the United States and intercepted it over the Atlantic. In Washington they say the balloon was launched for espionage purposes, in Beijing they say we are talking about a lost civilian air balloon. The link and purpose of the other three objects dropped the other day has yet to be determined, the Pentagon previously reported.