{"id":1838939,"date":"2023-02-07T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1838939"},"modified":"2023-02-07T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:04:49","slug":"china-refused-dod-call-after-spy-balloon-was-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-refused-dod-call-after-spy-balloon-was-shot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"China Refused DOD Call After Spy Balloon Was Shot Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-refused-dod-call-after-spy-balloon-was-shot-down%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=1838939&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>According to Pentagon reports the Chinese Defense Ministry rejected a secure phone call from the U.S. Secretary of Defense following the shooting down of a Chinese spy ball off South Carolina&#8217;s coast.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. finally downed the Chinese craft on Saturday, after it drifted across the North American continent for over a week, passing over several sensitive military installations \u2013 including a complex in Montana with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chinese-spy-balloon-us-nuclear-base-minuteman-surveillance-montana-2023-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos<\/a>. China claims that the object was a weather balloon that had errantly flown off course, and condemned the U.S.\u2019s \u201cindiscriminate use of force\u201d It was eventually taken down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence has, however, claimed that the balloon was a tool for espionage and carried thousands of pounds of sophisticated surveillance gear. U.S. officials also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/06\/chinese-spy-balloon-was-200ft-tall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Say it<\/a> It was equipped with small propellers as well as rotors. \u2018blown off course\u2019 The balloon was flown in U.S. airspace with the intention of reaching specific areas of interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Saturday, 4 February, immediately after taking action to down the PRC balloon, the DOD submitted a request for a secure call between Secretary Austin and PRC Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe,\u201d Brigadier General Pat Ryder <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/china-refused-call-pentagon-chief-222155500.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. \u201cUnfortunately, the PRC has declined our request. Our commitment to open lines of communication will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 28, the balloon passed over Alaska, north-east of the Aleutian Islands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/02\/05\/timeline-a-chinese-spy-balloons-7-day-trip-across-the-united-states-00081222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> According to reports, the craft was initially not considered a threat even though North American Aerospace Command was following its movements closely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By January 30, it had traveled into Canadian airspace \u2014 only to move back into American airspace on January 31 when it passed into northern Idaho. The Defense Department notified President Biden of the incursion and US military personnel on the ground started to take steps to secure radio communications and sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden requested that the balloon be taken down but was reportedly stopped by military advisors. The advisors supposedly believed that the risk of debris harming civilians or structures on the ground was too high \u2014 analysts reportedly estimated that the debris could scatter across a 7-mile radius. Biden&#8217;s administration was looking into options for shooting the balloon down over US territorial waters as of February 1, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Officials became more anxious as the balloon approached Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, one of only 3 locations that store and operate America\u2019s nuclear ICBM systems. The craft was grounded from Billings, Montana and fighters were scrambled in anticipation of a potential order to shoot it down.<\/p>\n<p>The order was never given and the balloon floated across the US, drawing heavy criticism from the Biden administration as legislators and civilian observers became aware of the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On February 3, Secretary Antony Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/04\/us\/china-spy-balloon-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be characterized<\/a> The incursion is a \u201cclear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law,\u201d And then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyitem.com\/wire\/mystery-balloon-discovery-over-montana-cancels-us-china-trip\/article_fd62f94a-44ec-52da-ad98-c671abc421f6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancelled<\/a> A planned state visit to China.<\/p>\n<p>The F-22 fighter jet flew by near Myrtle Beach to shoot down the spy balloon.<\/p>\n<p>The showdown over the spy balloon represents a major flare-up in an increasingly tense relationship between the United States and the People\u2019s Republic of China, which has been heating up steadily for years \u2014 growing tensions in the Taiwanese strait have sparked fears that China might attempt an aggressive take over of Taiwan, paralleling Russian aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chinas-spy-balloon-reportedly-part-of-global-surveillance-system-photos-from-wreckage-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent reports<\/a> It is evident that China has sent spy satellites over US territory before and that the U.S. did not shoot down the satellite as part of a wider global spying program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Defense Ministry refused a secure call from the U.S. Secretary of Defense after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, according to reports from the Pentagon. The U.S. finally downed the Chinese craft on Saturday, after it drifted across the North American continent for over a week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":1838942,"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":[17453,4501,11570,6635,4049,6893],"class_list":["post-1838939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-balloon","tag-china","tag-dod","tag-refused","tag-shot","tag-spy"],"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\/1838939","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}