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Chinese surveillance balloons a new threat to reckon with globally: Report
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In the month of January, what looked like the moon during daylight turned out to be a massive, unidentified, high-altitude white balloon, flying over U.S. territory and allegedly carrying surveillance equipment. The U.S. shot down the massive Chinese alleged surveillance high-altitude balloo
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Canada discovers Chinese monitoring buoys in Arctic, sparks controversy
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The incident came days after a US fighter jet shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon that had entered American airspace after flying over Canada.
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Threat from China extends beyond spy balloons, country now targets your cr
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Yet the same lawmakers are not batting an eye at the thought of millions of credit card users' personal financial information being sent to a Chinese government-owned payment processing firm under orders from the US government, reported The Washington Times.
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US imposes sanctions on six Chinese companies
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Commerce Department added five Chinese companies and one research institute to its so-called entity list, which will prevent companies from selling them American parts and technologies without a special license. Officials said the six entities had supported Chinese military programs rela
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US balloon claim 'hysterical and absurd': China's top diplomat Wang Yi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
China on Saturday lambasted the US for claiming its balloons as surveillance objects and termed it as "hysterical and absurd".
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3 objects US shot down were not likely to be spy devices: Biden
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Delivering remarks on the United States' response to recent aerial objects, Biden said, "The Intelligence Community's current assessment is that these 3 objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific res
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"We're calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason," Pentagon on shoo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The object was shaped like an octagon with strings hanging off it and did not appear to be carrying anything. It was shot down by US F-16 fighter jets on Sunday and was flying at 20,000 feet over Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was about to go over Lake Huron when it was neutralized.
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"US overreacted by using force," says Chinese Foreign Ministry on 'spy bal
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In a response to the White House's statement on suspected 'spy' balloons being a part of a PRC fleet of balloons developed to conduct surveillance operations, the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday said that the US overreacted by using force.
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The 'Balloon' goes up for China-US relations
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
An F-22A fighter of the US Air Force's 1st Fighter Wing, taking off from Langley Air Force Base, splashed the high-flying balloon with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile after it had crossed the coast of South Carolina. The balloon was flying at between 60,000 and 65,000 feet.
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Varanasi is hosting a four-day Kashi Balloon and Boat Festival
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI/SRV): To mark the first-ever SCO delegation visit, Banaras is hosting a Hot Air Balloon and Boating Festival called Kashi Balloon and Boat Festival from 17th to 20th of January i2023. This teeming and bustling spiritual heart of India - is ready to give a b
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Thousands gather in China's Wuhan to celebrate New Year amidst covid wave
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In this new year celebration, Civilians released balloons into the sky when the clock struck 12, as per the tradition in Wuhan, where the Covid story has begun.
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Loon stratospheric balloons confirm wind data from Aeolus: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
ESA's novel Aeolus satellite reliably measures wind speed also in higher air layers and thus in a region of the atmosphere where other direct global wind measurements are relatively sparse. This is the result of a study in which data from the satellite were compared with wind observations fr
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