U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week, rescheduling a visit that was cancelled in February | file photo | Photo Credit: AFP U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week, rescheduling a visit that was cancelled in February after a saga over a suspected surveillance balloon, … Read more
President Joe Biden speaks about the Chinese surveillance balloon and other unidentified objects shot down by the U.S. military, on Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. is developing “sharper rules” to track, monitor and potentially shoot down unknown aerial objects, following three weeks of … Read more
U.S. Navy sailors recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the Atlantic ocean on February 5, 2023. Photo: U.S. Navy via Reuters 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 … Read more
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon that was downed by the United States over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on February 5, 2023 | Photo Credit: Reuters United States authorities have begun collecting remnants of the Chinese surveillance balloon that … Read more
What in the world is that thing? A massive white orb sweeping across U.S. airspace has triggered a diplomatic maelstrom and is blowing up on social media. China insists it’s just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds. With only limited “self-steering” capabilities. However, the U.S. … Read more
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning attends a news conference in Beijing, China, on February 3, 2023 | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that a balloon the U.S. suspects of conducting surveillance was a civilian “airship” used for research, mainly meteorological purposes. The statement said the airship has limited steering capability and … Read more