{"id":1833881,"date":"2023-02-03T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833881"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:22:42","slug":"china-claims-suspected-spy-balloon-is-actually-civilian-airship-that-was-blown-off-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-claims-suspected-spy-balloon-is-actually-civilian-airship-that-was-blown-off-course\/","title":{"rendered":"China Claims Suspected Spy Balloon Is Actually \u2018Civilian Airship\u2019 That Was Blown Off Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-claims-suspected-spy-balloon-is-actually-civilian-airship-that-was-blown-off-course%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>\u2019s foreign ministry said Friday that a balloon suspected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a> It is possible to be used as covert surveillance. \u201ccivilian airship\u201d This was changed.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement regretting the incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon<\/a> Thursday&#8217;s announcement by the company that it was tracking a Chinese spy satellite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes,\u201d China\u2019s foreign ministry said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/202302\/t20230203_11019484.html\">Statement<\/a>. \u201cAffected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to\u201d The statement said that unforeseeable forces were beyond its control. \u201cThe Chinese side will continue communicating with the US side and properly handle this unexpected situation caused by force majeure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, Canada\u2019s national defense said that it was monitoring a \u201cpotential second incident\u201d It involved a suspected Chinese plane. China\u2019s foreign ministry has not addressed that claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA high-altitude surveillance balloon was detected and its movements are being actively tracked by [North American Aerospace Defense Command] NORAD,\u201d Canada\u2019s national defense said in a statement, according to the U.K.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/canada-chinese-spy-balloon-spotted-b2274974.html\">Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadians are safe and Canada is taking steps to ensure the security of its airspace, including the monitoring of a potential second incident,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chinese-spy-balloon-hovering-over-united-states-report\">said<\/a> Thursday that the U.S. Defense Department is tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over U.S. airspace. The balloon was first spotted over Montana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to track and monitor it closely,\u201d Ryder said. \u201cOnce the balloon was detected the U.S. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the balloon was \u201ctraveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident has raised national security concerns among lawmakers on Capitol Hill. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called the incident a \u201cbrazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty\u201d and called on President Joe Biden to act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s brazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be addressed, and President Biden cannot be silent. I am requesting a Gang of Eight briefing,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy\/status\/1621311735914266626\">tweeted<\/a> Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has so far elected not to shoot down the balloon, despite having a \u201cvery high confidence\u201d that the aircraft is being used by Beijing to collect surveillance data, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-antony-blinken-china-314302278a5f05bdc2df146ed5b35ec6\">Associated Press<\/a>. Defense officials fear that bringing the balloon down poses too great a risk for collateral damage on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry said Friday that a balloon suspected by the U.S. of being used for covert surveillance is actually a \u201ccivilian airship\u201d that was pushed off course. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs put out a statement expressing regret after the Pentagon announced Thursday that it was tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon. \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1833884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17501,17453,17502,4501,6282,4856,6893,6516],"class_list":["post-1833881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-airship","tag-balloon","tag-blown","tag-china","tag-civilian","tag-claims","tag-spy","tag-suspected"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}