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China Has Conducted a Spy Balloon Program for Years, Pentagon Says
Headline from NBC Los Angeles, on the newest of 3 developments
The Pentagon says the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years.”
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Like the balloon spotted over the United States, the Pentagon claimed the object was used for surveillance; Beijing says it was blown off course while conducting civilian research.
Alleged Chinese spy balloons were spotted on several occasions during President Donald Trump’s administration, including three instances where they traveled near sensitive U.S. military facilities and training areas, according to
By Zachary Cohen, CNN A US military intelligence report from last year that focused on China’s use of high-altitude balloons mentioned sightings in Hawaii and Florida during the Trump presidency, according to an excerpt of the report reviewed by CNN.
Officials said Chinese balloons travelled into U.S. airspace on at least three occasions during the Trump presidency and once previously during Biden's tenure.
WASHINGTON — Alleged Chinese spy balloons were spotted on several occasions during President Donald Trump’s administration, including three instances where they traveled near sensitive U.S. military facilities and training areas,
The Chinese spy balloon that floated across the continental United States last week is only one piece of Beijing’s “brazen” actions inside the U.S., as China seeks to buy up U.S. farmland and targets Chinese dissidents inside America’s borders.
The United States is recovering debris from the downed Chinese balloon in the Atlantic for analysis by intelligence experts and there is no plan to give the remains back to Beijing, officials said Monday.
The US and China exchanged words about a suspected Chinese spy balloon as military officials revealed other incursions. US officials said the downed craft was massive in size.
China on Sunday threatened to retaliate against the United States after the Biden administration waited at least four days to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon that floated near several military and nuclear sites.
A host of possible Chinese surveillance balloons have been identified throughout the globe in recent years, including up to eight in the U.S. since former President Donald […]
The Chinese balloon the U.S. military shot down Saturday generated widespread attention, but number of possible Chinese surveillance balloons have been spotted.
The only reason we know about those Trump Chinese spy balloons is because President Biden ordered the intelligence community “to increase both our vigilance and the assets that we were deploying to be able to detect Chinese efforts to spy against the United States.”
