Coverage dated February 7, 2023 to February 14, 2023
U.S. tracked spy balloon after it lifted off from China, officials say
Headline from CBS News, on the newest of 5 developments
Intelligence officials said it was possible the balloon was blown off course, but by the time it came over the continental U.S., it was being controlled by China.
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After a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy balloon passed over many parts of the U.S. unhindered, the federal government finally shot it down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4. The balloon may be gone, but the threat to our national security remains.
The Chinese surveillance balloon that transited U.S. airspace and was shot down contained Western-made parts with English writing, Fox confirmed as efforts to recover debris continue.
This week, tensions between the US and China spiked further after an alleged spy balloon was shot down by Washington. Beijing later said it would firmly defend its interests after President Joe Biden…
Images from U2 spy planes showed that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was unmistakably equipped for collecting intelligence and not weather data, a US official said Thursday.
The U.S. Navy has recovered most of the balloon and is getting ready to bring up the pieces of the cameras and antennas it was carrying, said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
The Chinese balloon that was destroyed off the coast of South Carolina was built for spying and had sophisticated communications equipment, U.S. officials said, based on information about the balloon gathered by a U-2 spy plane.
By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The US intelligence community has developed a method to track China’s fleet of surveillance balloons that was only discovered within the last year, six people familiar with the matter tell CNN.
A U.S. State Dept. official says an analysis of the balloon debris was “inconsistent” with China’s explanation that it was a weather balloon that went off course.
The balloon incident reflects the emerging adversarial pathology of U.S.-China relations, which is increasingly obstructing any efforts at mutual understanding, and contributing to what many observers have already described as a new cold war.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said Monday that Chinese spy balloons have been detected over Central Command's area of responsibility in the Middle East.
A 200-foot balloon from China entered United State air space over Alaska and floated all the way across the nation and over the Carolina coastline before it was finally shot down by the U.S. military over the Atlantic Ocean. The United States says the vessel was a “high altitude surveillance…
Ten days after a U.S. F-22 fighter aircraft downed a People’s Liberation Army surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast, U.S. and Chinese officials are struggling to find an exit ramp.
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