US President Joe Biden said he wanted the balloon brought down on Wednesday but was advised that the best time for the operation would be when it was over water. "They successfully took it down and I want to complement our aviators who did it," Mr Biden said. A US defence official ...
The US is conducting so-called analyses on the balloon's payload, and these results could be faked to further throw mud at China, said the source. Zhu Yaochun, deputy secretary-general of the China Air Transport Association, told the Global Times that the US' shooting down of the Chinese ...
The US is conducting so-called analyses on the balloon's payload, and these results could be faked to further throw mud at China, said the source.Zhu Yaochun, deputy secretary-general of the China Air Transport Association, told the Global Times that the US' shooting down of the Chinese a...
A balloon flies in the sky over Billings, Montana, US, Feb 1, 2023. [Photo/Agencies] In response to the US military shooting down an unmanned civilian airship from China, Beijing said it "will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the enterprise concerned, and reserves ...
risk being challenged by the widening split between their governments, which have clashed on issue including trade and competition for technology and markets. The data also come at a particularly low point between the two amid the shooting down this week of a Chinese balloon in the United States...
It called the shooting down an “obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.” The Pentagon has said the balloon was being used for surveillance. Its presence already led Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday to postpone a historic trip to Beijing, as tensions ...
But Republican Sen. Mitt Romney told CNN he believes the US made right decision to wait before shooting it down. “I believe that the administration, the president, our military and intelligence agencies, acted skillfully and with care. At the same time, their capabilities are extraordinarily imp...
The US decided against shooting down the balloon while it remained over land due to the risk of falling debris hurting a civilian and instead waited until it was over the ocean. The US military will now focus on debris recovery efforts. The incident is the latest in a series of spying ...
In response, the Chinese will almost certainly stick to the line it has given throughout, that the balloon was an unmanned civilian weather balloon, floating over the US by accident and that its shooting down was an inflammatory overreaction on the part of the A...
Ignoring the incoherent ramblings of Trump for a moment, the Chinese spy balloon situation still left plenty of valid questions about what should’ve been done and when. Pentagon officials reportedly considered shooting down the balloon earlier this week, but didn’t want to have debri...