Chinese spy balloon

After floating over the US for days, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been shot down. But aftershocks from the saga continue to reverberate.

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The effort off the coast of South Carolina is expected to take days. Navy and Coast Guard ships have been sent to the scene.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, called it a “dereliction of duty.” She said the balloon had “violated U.S. America’s Western allies were quick to line up behind the Biden administration’s insistence that the balloon was a clumsy attempt at spying by China. He described it as “a decision that was focused on protecting human life,” but he cautioned that the incident should not have happened at all. Intelligence officials can offer briefings on China’s balloon surveillance program to “key officials” from the Trump administration, the person said. Officials in Washington and Beijing had seen the trip as part of a renewed effort to establish high-level dialogue during a period of heightened tensions. Officials from the State Department and the White House National Security Council spoke with Chinese officials about the downing of the balloon soon after it happened, a senior Biden administration official said. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. A senior administration official said on Sunday that in the end, U.S. official said on Sunday that there were ways for intelligence officials to feed false information to the balloon, which would largely render the information it gathered worthless. The recovery effort, which is expected to take days, began not long after debris from the balloon hit the water on Saturday, a defense official said. WASHINGTON — Navy divers were searching for debris from the Chinese spy balloon that a U.S.

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“The message embedded to the world is: ‘We can fly a balloon over airspace of the United States of America and they won’t be able to do anything about it … We should not have let the People’s Republic of China make a mockery of our airspace … The Pentagon has acknowledged reports of a second balloon over Latin America. Blinken said he told a senior Chinese diplomat sending the balloon was “an irresponsible act … President Biden missed the opportunity to defend our sovereignty, send a message of strength and bolster deterrence.” “This puts a big dent in moving that forward in a constructive way, which we really need to do.” The balloon was spotted on Wednesday over Montana, home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, which has fields of nuclear missile silos. and the operation was put in place without pain, damage or injury to any Americans, lives or property”. The Chinese knew this was going to be spotted. It crossed Idaho on Tuesday, the day the White House said Biden was briefed. Marco Rubio of Florida, the Republican vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, was unmoved, telling the same network: “Why didn’t they take action? “The debris field that was created by this balloon which was shot down, it’s about seven miles long.

As a Chinese spy balloon made its way east across the United States last week, a military and diplomatic crisis played out on the ground.

“The balloon never posed a military or physical threat to the American people. officials push back, saying the balloon is clearly used for surveillance and the breach is a clear violation of U.S. The president directs the Pentagon to come up with options to shoot down the balloon as soon as it is safe to do so over U.S. The amphibious ship USS Carter Hall, destroyer USS Oscar Austin and cruiser Philippine Sea are in the area to aid with recovery. He flashes a thumbs up to reporters when asked if the military was going to shoot it down, as he boards Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in New York. The Chinese Foreign Ministry releases a statement acknowledging the balloon is Chinese but claims it’s a civilian airship used to collect weather data. The balloon re-enters U.S. This was “straightforward,” a senior administration official said, “because we could track the exact path of the balloon and ensure no activities or sensitive unencrypted comms would be conducted in its vicinity.” Defense officials estimate debris from the balloon, which is the size of three buses, could fall in at least a seven-mile radius. The balloon is first detected over U.S. The balloon is part of a Chinese fleet developed for spying, which over the past few years have been spotted over countries across five continents, including Asia and Europe. officials, all of whom asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the situation.

Defence secretary Lloyd Austin said US fighter jets had on Saturday afternoon shot down the surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina in American ...

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said President Biden authorized the operation to shoot down the balloon.

NASA was also brought it to determine what the debris field may look like when the balloon was shot down, the Biden officials said. Biden directed the military to present options for how to shoot down the balloon immediately. The senior defense official also said that the U.S. The senior defense official told CBS News that the balloon was about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina when it was shot down. The military Wednesday then presented options to Mr. Senior Biden administration officials told CBS News that, after the balloon was shot down, the U.S government spoke directly with the Chinese government about the action. Flights resumed shortly after the balloon was taken down. Those Biden officials said the balloon was first detected over Alaska on Jan. airspace on Tuesday, the Biden officials disclosed. Biden told reporters that "we're gonna take care of" the balloon. The balloon was shot down by U.S. After the operation, Mr.

Biden administration takes credit for the safe takedown of the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic, while Republicans say it should have been done a week ...

The U.S. The airship first entered the U.S. The discovery of the spy balloon comes at a sensitive time for China. U.S. China’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the U.S. he wants to tell the world that China is open for business again. China said the balloon was gathering meteorological data and driven off course by wind currents, sending it over the United States, which the U.S. “Why let it fly across the middle of the country over military bases? Pete Buttigieg, President Joe Biden’s transportation chief, told CNN’s “State of the Union” show that China’s deployment of the balloon was “an unacceptable intrusion on American sovereignty.” But he said the U.S. military, on Biden’s order last Wednesday, shot it down Saturday “without any damage to people or property…after assessment of the risks” of doing it over the U.S. A political partisan divide quickly emerged Sunday over the U.S. The debris from the missile strike on the balloon, which had been drifting at an altitude of more than 18,000 meters (11 miles), landed about 10 kilometers (6 miles) off the shoreline of the southern U.S.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas commended President Biden on Sunday for ordering the destruction of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic ...

The successful takedown on Saturday brought an end to one chapter in a tense dispute with China over the intrusion into U.S. [raised alarms](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-montana-flight-tracking/) as they began to emerge online last week, when the mysterious high-altitude object was first spotted in the skies above Billings, Montana, on Wednesday. Biden had authorized military personnel last Wednesday "to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon's path." An F-22 dispatched from Langley Air Force Base ultimately shot down the balloon using a single air-to-air missile Saturday afternoon, according to a senior defense official. And at the end of the day, I think the only reason they shot it down is because it made it into the news and they felt forced to as a matter of politics rather than national security. That's a bad message for the Chinese government to hear."

The downing of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was met by lawmakers with a mix of praise, criticism and concern.

Patrick Ryder said the balloon didn't pose a physical or military threat, and once it was detected, the U.S. protects American lives while responding "effectively" to the violation of U.S. And so we took additional precautions to make sure that whatever additive intel value would be minimized," the official said. Tim Scott, R-S.C., [called it](https://twitter.com/SenatorTimScott/status/1621973003943743493) a "dereliction of Biden's duty." Senior administration officials told ABC News that shooting down the balloon safely sends the message that the U.S. military for "putting the safety of the American people first." "The surveillance balloon's overflight of U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters on Saturday that he ordered the Pentagon to shoot the balloon down "as soon as possible" on Wednesday. -- and that the situation called for a more forceful response. The Pentagon has confirmed the high-altitude balloon was being used for surveillance, disputing China's claim that it was a civilian aircraft used for meteorological purposes. The balloon was shot down by a U.S. military was met by lawmakers with a mix of praise for the safe and