{"id":1850125,"date":"2023-02-16T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850125"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:43:19","slug":"in-presser-biden-cant-explain-why-hes-softer-on-chinese-spying-than-on-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-presser-biden-cant-explain-why-hes-softer-on-chinese-spying-than-on-weather-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"In Presser, Biden Can\u2019t Explain Why He\u2019s Softer On Chinese Spying Than On Weather Balloons"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fin-presser-biden-cant-explain-why-hes-softer-on-chinese-spying-than-on-weather-balloons%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=1850125&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>The three unidentified objects, which the U.S. military launched from North American airspace last Thursday using six-figure rockets, were not identified. \u201cmost likely\u201d President Joe Biden stated that instruments belonging to private research and recreation agencies were used for scientific purposes during a Thursday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Biden claims that the U.S. government remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/unidentified-flying-object-debris-search-is-hampered-by-weather-location-4cebfb3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uncertain<\/a> about what these objects are and what they were used to do, which is why crews are working to uncover the downed objects\u2019 debris. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t yet know exactly what these three objects were,\u201d Biden admitted. \u201cBut nothing, nothing, right now suggests they were related to China\u2019s spy balloon program or they were surveillance vehicles from other any other country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden claims that the three objects he ordered to be shot down after the Chinese spy balloon flew across the country last week were weather balloons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvePtENh21\">pic.twitter.com\/RvePtENh21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1626299764760248322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Despite the objects\u2019 seemingly innocuous purposes, Biden bragged that if \u201cany object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But what about objects that aren\u2019t classified by Biden, his advisers, or anyone else in the intelligence-military complex as a \u201cthreat to the safety and security of the American people?\u201d That\u2019s what happened with the Chinese spy balloon. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/10\/anonymous-sources-are-how-corporate-media-launder-smear-operations-as-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unnamed bureaucrats<\/a> Americans were repeatedly assured that the Chinese spy balloon was equipped with all necessary equipment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chinese-spy-balloon-equipment-intelligence-equipment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cmultiple antennas\u201d<\/a> This was \u201clikely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications\u201d For \u201cintelligence surveillance\u201d above some of the nation\u2019s most sensitive locations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/china-spy-balloon-pentagon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Did not \u201cpose a military or physical threat.\u201d<\/a> This unsourced claim was used by the Biden administration to justify waiting to eliminate the enemy device until it reached the continental U.S. <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon provided similar assurances regarding the three remaining unidentified flying objects discovered hovering above North America days later. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese objects don\u2019t present a military threat to anyone on the ground,\u201d Lloyd Austin, Defense Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/3297119\/secretary-lloyd-j-austin-iii-addresses-traveling-press-upon-arrival-in-brussels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The objects were quickly fired from the sky. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/us-military-first-shot-unknown-octagonal-object-lake-huron-missed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Missiles with a cost of $400,000<\/a> Each because UFO officials claimed they were a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/02\/13\/us\/ufo-balloon-spy-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Commercial aircraft may be at risk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How come the U.S. military was able to shoot down officials&#8217; objects despite being informed by intelligence agencies? <em>It was clearly stated<\/em> didn\u2019t pose a threat to U.S. national security, but wouldn\u2019t shoot down an object launched by the United States\u2019s top foreign adversary? <\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed that no one knows for certain what the objects were used for but then stated that they look very similar to weather balloons. The Pentagon said these UFOs weren\u2019t a threat to national security, but then shot them down anyway. Meanwhile, the real threat, Red China\u2019s espionage device, didn\u2019t get blown out of the sky and sunk below the waves in the Atlantic Ocean until more than a week after it was detected. <\/p>\n<p>None of Biden\u2019s justifications for quickly shooting down weather balloons but not the Chinese spy balloon make sense, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon said these UFOs weren\u2019t a threat to national security, but then shot them down anyway. 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