The White House has warned that a sudden upsurge in Chinese military “aggressiveness” behind a series of near collisions in the sea and air could soon result in “casualties”. “It won’t be long before somebody gets hurt,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. “That’s the concern with these unsafeContinue Reading
HIROSHIMA: US President Joe Biden on Sunday said the Group of Seven nations had agreed a united approach to China that called for diversifying supply chains to reduce dependence on one country, and hinted that he could speak with China’s president soon.“We’re not looking to decouple from China. We’re lookingContinue Reading
Australians have been assured that no spy balloons have been detected flying in our airspace after US President Joe Biden broke his silence on his surveillance row with China. Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australian authorities had advised him they had found no aerial surveillance vehicles such as the balloonContinue Reading
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a “deep mistake” with Beijing’s spy balloon saga, a former head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service says. Sir Alex Younger, the former head of Britain’s spy agency, told the BBC that China’s assumption of how the US would react to surveillance balloons beingContinue Reading
The spy balloon that flew over the United States last week was part of a “surveillance fleet” deployed by the Chinese military that has targeted more than 40 countries across five continents, a US official said on Thursday. Detailed images taken by high-altitude U2 spy planes showed the balloon’s payloadContinue Reading
The recent downing of a Chinese balloon over the US has generated a tidal wave of scorn directed at officials who raised alarm that the device could be part of a spy network spanning five continents. US President Joe Biden publicly declared that the country is not seeking conflict withContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Using underwater drones, warships and inflatable vessels, the Navy is carrying out an extensive operation to gather all of the pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon a US fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.In the newest images released by the Navy onContinue Reading
A top-ranking senator has claimed China intentionally flew a spy balloon over the United States to send the message that America is in “decline”. “They did this on purpose,” Republican senator for Florida Marco Rubio said about the suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down by the US on the weekend.Continue Reading
Australians are being urged not to panic after a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down in the US over the weekend. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said while it was concerning the balloon, which Beijing claims was a rogue weather monitoring device, had entered the US airspace and could haveContinue Reading