The Chinese spy balloon that passed over the US early this year used American technology that helped it collect audio-visual information, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing preliminary findings from a closely held investigation.Analysis from several US defense and intelligence agencies, found that the balloon carried commercially availableContinue Reading
KENTFIELD, CALIFORNIA/BEIJING: China hit back on Wednesday after US President Joe Biden referred to President Xi Jinping as a “dictator”, saying the remarks were absurd and a provocation, in an unexpected spat immediately following efforts by both sides to lower tensions.Biden’s comments came just a day after top US secretaryContinue Reading
A Chinese fighter pilot performed an “unnecessarily aggressive manoeuvre” near an American surveillance aircraft operating over the South China Sea last week, the US military said on Tuesday. The incident — which the Pentagon says is part of a pattern of behaviour by China — comes at a time ofContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: China is the strongest and the most disciplined “enemy” that the US has ever faced, Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley has warned.In an impressive speech addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference — the top annual event of the Republican Party and its support base — the Indian-American politician continuedContinue Reading
Japanese officials sealed off a beach on Tuesday morning to investigate a large, mysterious metal sphere of unknown origin. The “suspicious” ball was reported by a local resident in Hamamatsu, a southern coastal city about 250km from Tokyo, who called police just before 9am saying “a large round object wasContinue Reading
Inherently explosive? Or just a load of hot air? Beijing’s brazen bid to send a spy balloon over some of the US’ most secret sites has sparked a diplomatic firestorm. But strategic analysts are struggling to come to grips with what it all means. It was just a balloon. ItContinue 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
BEIJING: China’s ceremonial parliament has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the U.S. passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon‘s intrusion into U.S. airspace.The statement issued Thursday by the National People’s Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee repeated Beijing’s insistence that the balloon wasContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The three still-unidentified aerial objects shot down by the US in the past week likely had merely a “benign purpose,” the White House acknowledged Tuesday, drawing a distinction between them and the massive Chinese balloon that earlier traversed the US with a suspected goal of surveillance.“The intelligence community isContinue Reading
The White House has all but ruled out any links between “aliens or extraterrestrial activity” and the mysterious flying objects shot down over the US and Canada as conspiracy theories about their origins mount. The US shot down another mysterious flying object over North America on Sunday, the fourth inContinue Reading