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US after collecting debris from the sea: Chinese balloons with espionage technology, Beijing's fleet has flown over 5 continents

2023-02-09 17:26:02Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
US after collecting debris from the sea: Chinese balloons with espionage
The remains of the Chinese balloon

The balloon that flew for several days over the sky of the United States of America was not released for meteorological purposes, but for espionage. The Biden administration came to this conclusion today after officials pulled the remains of the aircraft from the sea after it was shot down by warplanes.

According to a senior State Department official, the Biden administration has concluded that the balloon was operating with electronic surveillance technology capable of monitoring communications on American soil.

Four Chinese spy balloons have flown over the United States in the past over locations deemed "of interest to the Chinese," the Pentagon said Wednesday, but did not elaborate on what trajectories they had taken or whether they had passed over any military facilities.

Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said the United States had information about the four Chinese balloons before discovering the latest one, which arrived over Alaska on January 28.

The White House also said yesterday that Chinese balloons have been spotted in various locations across five continents and that the United States is communicating with its allies on the matter. Washington shot down and shot down the Chinese spy balloon on Saturday with a missile fired from a fighter jet as it traveled over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina.

Biden administration officials said the balloon was being used for surveillance and called the move over the United States an "unacceptable violation of the country's sovereignty" by China. Beijing has insisted the balloon was being used for civilian scientific reasons and had mistakenly ended up in US airspace.

The American intelligence community has concluded that the balloon that recently flew over parts of the United States is part of a broad surveillance program run by the Chinese military.

The balloon's connection to the People's Liberation Army, the official name of China's military, was first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post and later confirmed by CNN. The balloon is part of a fleet of unmanned aircraft that is operated in part from Hainan province, located on China's southern coast.

The Washington Post quoted several unnamed US officials as saying that with this program, Beijing has carried out surveillance missions in developing countries and areas of strategic interest, including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has shared information about this Chinese military program with 150 foreign diplomats in 40 embassies.

On Tuesday, the US Navy began to retrieve parts of the Chinese spy balloon from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. They are using sophisticated drones to detect and locate her remains. The head of the United States Northern Command, General Glen VanHerck, who is leading the effort, and several officials from President Biden's administration will brief US lawmakers on Wednesday and Thursday.

CNN also reported that parts of the balloon are now being examined by a team of elite technicians and engineers at the FBI's training facility at Quantico, Virginia.

The balloon incident prompted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a planned visit to Beijing aimed at improving relations that have deteriorated in recent years between the two economic giants. A Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday that since the balloon crash, China has declined a request by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to speak with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe.


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