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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2023 21:45:04 GMT
A US military operation to shoot down a Chinese "spy balloon" that had been hovering in American airspace came at a tense time for the two superpowers, whose relationship has been on rocky ground for years. But how did the US successfully down it with a single missile - and what intelligence are they hoping to find in the wreckage? Latest: trib.al/lnxohkS
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2023 8:31:07 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Sunday accused China of deliberately surveilling sensitive U.S. military sites with a suspected spy balloon and said the Biden administration had given Beijing an intelligence opening by not downing the balloon during its high-altitude drift through American airspace. China, meanwhile, accused the U.S. of indiscriminate use of force when the American military shot down the balloon. Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy on Sunday over the “U.S. attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force.” The balloon’s presence in the sky above the United States before a military jet shot it down over the Atlantic Ocean with a missile Saturday further strained U.S.-China ties. America’s top diplomat abruptly scrapped a trip to Beijing and China’s defense ministry said in a statement after the balloon fell into the waters off the Carolina coast that it “reserves the right to take necessary measures to deal with similar situations.” “Clearly this was an attempt by China to gather information, to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear weapon sites,” said the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, among the members of Congress on the Sunday news shows. “And that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize.”
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2023 19:48:50 GMT
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton joins CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "CNN This Morning" to discuss the Biden administration's claim that balloons were discovered in US airspace during the Trump administration. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2023 8:45:42 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2023 16:56:12 GMT
WATCH LIVE: House Armed Services Committee holds hearing on Chinese threats to U.S.
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