Former CIA officer and FBI special agent Tracy Walder told 'America's Newsroom' on Wednesday that conflicting messages from China indicate 'confusion in Beijing.'
Former CIA officer and FBI special agent Tracy Walder discusses the Chinese spy flight as the U.S. Navy retrieves its debris from the Atlantic Ocean.spy flight
"What I didn't expect of their reaction is this the initial feeling of regret," Tracy Walder told"America's Newsroom," noting that China will often portray itself as a"victim.""They sort of now have taken this hardened response, which tells me there's perhaps a bit of confusion in Beijing.
China's President Xi Jinping looks on as he attends a session during the G-20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Nov. 16, 2022. "If you remember, on February 2nd, the U.S. signed a military agreement with The Philippines that really expanded our military base capabilities much closer to Taiwan, so I'm certain that China was obviously not pleased with that agreement; however, the fact that it was on the heels of that trip by Secretary Blinken to Beijing indicates to me that this was probably an accident, and they didn't intend to necessarily get caught," she said.
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