and how the public reacts to their stories. Both the United States and China have used Twitter as a medium to present their agendas during the South China Sea dispute [21]. Strategic narratives were also dispersed on Twitter by the Chinese...
Nebraska and Missouri after it first entered U.S. airspace on Jan. 28. Previous balloons have flown over parts of Hawaii, Texas and Florida — three during the Trump administration and one at the beginning of the Biden administration.
Three of those balloons crossed into U.S. territory during the Trump administration, and there was one previously duringJoe Biden's presidency. But each of those incursions "was for brief periods of time, nothing at all like what we saw last week." Donald Trumpand several of his former in...
Montana has some experience with balloons launched by adversaries: Japan in World War II targeted the western U.S. with incendiary “balloon bombs” that were floated over North America with plans to harm people and start forest fires. More than 30 of the bombs made of rice paper landed i...
Mr. Biden said at the time the three objects were shot down over North America, the U.S. could not rule out the possible surveillance risk to sensitive facilities. But he said the intelligence community's current assessment is that the unidentified objects are "most likely balloons tie...
Similar Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S. at least three times during the Trump administration and at least once previously during the Biden administration, a senior U.S. defense official said. The balloon shot down Saturday spent at least four days over the continental United States...
Pompeo was one of several Trump administration officials given classified briefings last year because “incidents that occurred during Trump’s presidency weren’t discovered until after Biden took office.” That’s a bit less of an applause line, though, so I guess Pompeo’s str...
“‘Petitioning the government’ — baloney,” Godfrey said. “Kevin McCarthy was the Speaker of the House. It’s not his job to shoot down spy balloons.” Rogers, a former telephone customer service representative, testified that he took to care to “edit” his comments on the phone to...
military revealed that similar Chinese balloons had intruded on U.S. airspace at least three times during the administration of President Donald Trump, which ran from January 2017 to January 2021. Those previous incursions didn't make the news. Indeed, it took a while even for top American ...
3 Chinese spy balloons flew over United States during Trump administration, defense official says From CNN's Michael Callahan A senior US defense official said Saturday there were three instances during the Trump administration when China briefly flew a surveillance balloon over the ...