In domestic speeches, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping often uses the metaphor of seeds of a pomegranate to describe the Chinese people bound tightly together and uniform. The phrase stands in contrast to America’s founding motto, e pluribus unum: out of the many, one. The American ideal rejects forced uniformity and the erasure of ethnic minorities, standing instead for a diverse multitude united under a shared set of principles.
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In the balloon saga, the US has shown its allies and the world how incapable it was to identify small flying objects, whether they are for military use or not, and whether they are harmful to US national interests.
The incursion of a Chinese spy balloon into US airspace has turned what could be a normal debate and discussion into another politicized foreign policy issue.