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The United States said the Chinese balloon was part of a global spying programme.


US intelligence has determined that the Chinese spy balloon detected in US airspace last week is part of a larger scale monitoring software The international army of the Asian giant that has been operating for years, as revealed by the “Washington Post”.

The spy balloon program is being led from Hainan Province, an island in southern China, anonymous US government sources told the newspaper. The purpose of these artifacts is to obtain information about military installations in other countries and they have been observed on five continents.

Part of the balloons are operated by and obtained by the Chinese Liberation Army Air Force military information In countries such as Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines.

The first news in the United States about the presence of the balloon in its sky, the device was placed over Montana, a sparsely populated state in the northwest of the country, in which a good number of nuclear silos are concentrated.

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The balloon was revealed amid rising tensions between the United States and China, the two rival powers Global economic and geostrategic leadershipAnd led to the suspension of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Beijing.

The balloon was brought down last weekend while it was flying over waters near North Carolina and authorities are working to recover and study its remains.

On Monday, Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman convened 150 authorities from 40 embassies from around the world to report on the operations of these Chinese balloons. In the past, similar artifacts were discovered in some places Like Japan or TaiwanAnd the United States has now realized that it has also done so in recent years in Florida and Texas and in parts of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii and Guam.

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