{"id":1960691,"date":"2023-06-29T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-spy-balloon-did-not-collect-intelligence-while-traversing-us-pentagon-says\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:20:08","slug":"chinese-spy-balloon-did-not-collect-intelligence-while-traversing-us-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-spy-balloon-did-not-collect-intelligence-while-traversing-us-pentagon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon denies Chinese spy balloon gathered US intelligence."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fchinese-spy-balloon-did-not-collect-intelligence-while-traversing-us-pentagon-says%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=1960691&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--><h2>The Chinese Surveillance Balloon: Assessing Intelligence Collection<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Defense has recently assessed the controversial Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed the continental United States earlier this year. Contrary to initial concerns, it has been determined that the balloon did not &#8220;collect&#8221; intelligence during its flight.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-war-in-ukraine-is-brutal-it-looks-like-the-crimean-war\/\" title=\"Putin\u2019s War in Ukraine Is Brutal \u2013 It Looks Like the Crimean War\">spy balloon<\/a>, which Beijing claimed was a weather balloon blown off course, was equipped with American technology that enabled it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-spy-balloon-did-not-collect-intelligence-while-traversing-us-pentagon-says\/\" title=\"Pentagon denies Chinese spy balloon gathered US intelligence.\">gather audio-visual information<\/a>. However, it is now confirmed that no intelligence was collected while the balloon was transiting or overflying the United States.<\/p>\n<h3>Precautionary Measures and Recovery Efforts<\/h3>\n<p>During the incident in early February, the Department of Defense took precautionary measures to ensure that the balloon could not gather sensitive intelligence as it flew over military bases. These measures included delaying Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s trip to Beijing, which eventually took place earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Once the spy balloon sailed off the coast of the Carolinas, the U.S. military promptly shot it down. Efforts were made to recover the debris, which is now under the control of the FBI. However, the conclusions of the FBI&#8217;s investigation have not been publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n<h3>Chinese Military&#8217;s Silence and Potential Escalation<\/h3>\n<p>While the People&#8217;s Liberation Army, China&#8217;s military, had been engaging in risky maneuvers towards U.S. aircraft and naval vessels in the Pacific region prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-claims-spy-balloon-floating-over-us-nuclear-sites-is-for-scientific-research\/\" title=\"China Claims Spy Balloon Floating Over US Nuclear Sites Is for 'Scientific Research'\">spy balloon incident<\/a>, it marked the beginning of Chinese military leaders&#8217; current silence towards their U.S. allies.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has repeatedly warned that this silence increases the likelihood of escalation or miscalculations between the two countries. Despite these warnings, Beijing has refused to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-concerned-private-chinese-companies-could-give-military-aid-to-russia\/\" title=\"US worried Chinese firms may provide military support to Russia.\">crisis communications challenge<\/a> with U.S. military officials, as highlighted by Secretary of State Blinken during his trip.<\/p>\n<h3>Shangri-La Summit and Lack of Substantive Exchange<\/h3>\n<p>Weeks before the spy balloon incident, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chinese Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu briefly spoke at the Shangri-La summit. However, their interaction was limited to a handshake and did not involve a substantive exchange. Additionally, the Chinese declined a U.S. request for a more formal meeting between Li and Austin.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how the aftermath of the spy balloon incident and the current silence between the two countries will impact their future relations and potential conflicts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Defense concluded that the Chinese surveillance balloon, mistaken as a weather balloon, did not gather intelligence during its journey across America. However, it was equipped with American technology that aided in capturing audio-visual data, as confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1960692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1960691","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}