China has made a 'deep mistake' over spy balloon, says ex-M16 boss
Evening Standard|February 14, 2023
XI JINPING has made a "deep mistake" in underestimating the impact of the storm sparked by China's suspected spy balloon missions, an ex-MI6 chief said today.
Nicholas Cecil
China has made a 'deep mistake' over spy balloon, says ex-M16 boss

Sir Alex Younger, who was head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service from 2014 to 2020, stressed that "trust is plummeting to zero" between Washington and Beijing.

He issued the warning as the US military said it had recovered debris, including electronic equipment with key sensors presumably used for intelligence gathering, from a suspected Chinese balloon downed on February 4 off South Carolina's coast.

Sir Alex stressed that the alleged balloon espionage operations were a "gross and really visible transgression of the sovereignty of many nations".

The revelations about them also highlighted the "manifest hypocrisy" of Beijing trumpeting a new global security architecture, which China says it would defend in the face of what it has sought to portray as "US recklessness".

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