The Pentagon on Wednesday released a photo of a U.S. Air Force pilot looking down at a suspected Chinese spy balloon the day before it was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. officials later admitted that the three later objects shot down likely had a"benign purpose" and were detected after the U.S. military set its radar system to detect slow-moving balloons. U.S. INTEL ASSESSES CHINESE SPY BALLOONS TRANSITED US SEVERAL TIMES, WENT ‘UNDETECTED’: SENIOR ADMIN OFFICIAL
The downing of the Chinese spy balloon has also ratcheted up tensions between Washington and Beijing, which accused the former’s handling of the situation as a"hysterical" and"absurd." In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a trip to a trip to Beijing over the incident. Over the weekend, Blinken met with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of an international security conference in Munich.
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