According to three unnamed current and former US officials quoted by NBC News, China allegedly tried to quicken the flight of the balloon over the US after the administration of President Joe Biden accused Beijing of sending the craft to observe American targets.
On Monday, the news source released fresh information regarding how Washington saw the balloon incident. In contrast to what US officials claimed, the Chinese government has maintained that the aircraft was a scientific meteorological plane that accidentally entered American airspace.
According to NBC News sources, China was able to control the balloon “such that it could make several passes over some of the sites” it intended to target for electronic signal collection. The operators allegedly “raised its speed” after its existence was made public in early February in an effort “to get it out of American airspace as quickly as possible.”
BURSTING HIS BALLOON: Democrat senator vows to hold Biden administration "accountable" for China gathering intel. https://t.co/xjIbnUD5ea pic.twitter.com/wsM4dUr3OI
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 4, 2023
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Downplaying the Threat?
The US government was allegedly interfering with the balloon’s mission by shifting prospective targets and preventing them from broadcasting. The unidentified officials claimed that without these measures, “China could have gotten considerably more intelligence from key places.”
The media outlet reported that its sources had declined to identify the Chinese group in charge of the expedition. The officials continued to assert that the craft had a self-destruct system that could have been activated remotely but, for some reason, didn’t.
The high-altitude aircraft travelled over a significant portion of the nation before being shot down by the US Air Force on February 4 off the coast of South Carolina. The aircraft first entered US airspace around Alaska in late January. One of the mission’s purported targets was the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, which houses some of the US’s nuclear arsenal.
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President Biden’s domestic adversaries condemned him for what they viewed as a hesitation to shoot down the Chinese vessel, a hesitation that his administration justified as being due to safety concerns. It claimed that because it had no control over where the debris would land, it would have to wait until the balloon had left the ground.
The US has a history of pointing out items that it believes could be used by Beijing for espionage, such as Chinese exchange students, cranes produced in China but are located in American ports, and TikTok, the country’s video-sharing app.
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Morons!
China (and Russia and US et al) have satellites that can read the time on a wrist watch from 1,000 miles.
The purpose of balloons is to measure wind speed and direction, temperature, moisture etc. They have very limited directional ability to allow them to use thermals to gain altitude.
This stupid demonisation of China is to provide someone to blame when the US goes into terminal bankruptcy. They would have blamed Russia but Russia, according to US, is a toothless bear that cannot even defeat Ukraine.
Make no mistake, the US ‘deep state’ is to blame for your misfortune not some funny person in Peking.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in November 1933 to Col. Edward House: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
– Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924)
CCP spy Biden got quite a good payday from this.
And you thought Biden and the Pentagon were on OUR SIDE ? HA ! Had you Fooled again !
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi !!
Biden is nothing more than a communist Chinese asset.
The Article fails to report on the Acres and Acres of Farmlands bought by the Chinese, all the properties bought adjacent to military bases, where they have been garnishing information for years, all this being done under the Obozo/Biden Administration and now under the Biden/ Obozo administration
Biden will say or do nothing that would make China angry!
The balloon also flew over the White House, but found no intelligence there
how can we survive when our so-called president lets China spy on our entire nation before he authorizes the balloon be shot down over the ocean. He and Milley are CCP Traitors—IMPEACH THEM