The Chinese foreign ministry claimed Friday that the suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon flying over the continental United States is a “civilian airship” used mainly for weather research that deviated from its planned course. The statement, by a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, is the first admission that the airship originated in China since the Pentagon revealed it was tracking the balloon on Thursday.
Patrick Ryder said the US government has been tracking the balloon for several days as it made its way over the northern United States, adding it was “traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.” A senior US defense official said senior military officials had advised Biden not to shoot it down due to fear the debris could pose a safety threat to people on the ground.
China FM announced: China never invited Blinken to visit China at Feb. So the drama queen is Blinken himself. He is a bad stand up comedian.
Chicken or was this all planned?!
But Blinken was not invited by China.
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Blinken May go back to his old job at the UPenn school that is in China’s pocket because of the millions they receive from them.
I think it is a message from China to Washington that China's missiles are faster than the balloon sent by China and entered American airspace
Bloomberg reports the Biden admin was first aware the Chinese spy balloon entered U.S. airspace one week ago on 1/28, and had opted not to inform the American public about it until the Bilings Gazette published a photo of the balloon on Thursday.
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Why is thing still in the air? Why wasn't this shot down on the west coast? Incompetence, failure to act. This is like a 2 second decision. They need to recover it and see what is really inside it, should be very interesting.
shoot it down
Hook it like a fish on cables from helicopters and pop that balloon. Bring it down.
CNN,like it’s syncopated other news outlets will ignore Chinese military maneuvers two miles off California’s coast to fall in line with the Administration’ story .
Why didn’t US & Canadian Gov didn’t confiscate this so called spy 🕵️♀️.. and played around with words…🤨
Why did the Biden administration ignore this is until a Montana camera man caught it in the sky, Biden administration knew this was entering our air space way before it hit the Montana skies, why is all the fake news media ignoring the truth on this
Cnbc Morning Bj reporting Breaking News .... Pentagon told Joe No we can't shoot Balloon in the leg......
Check Hunter’s bank account. He was paid to let the balloon fly…
This country is being invaded and Biden is allowing it.
Could it be dropping more covid 19. Who knows.
The Pentagon justifying not shooting it down because of debris calling it large as three city busses. It maybe as long but not near as massive. But it sounds good!
Blinken postponing trip that is great punishment alright bet the Chinese are in tears! We should probably be greatful for that after he messed up his first visit there.
Americunts enjoy invading foreign countries and raining bombs down on innocent civilians to kill them, but when they find balloons on their territory, they freak out like teenage girls.
He is thinking about flying to China on that balloon....
Postponing? Trip? What trip? Planned? What are you talking about CNN? Was anyone invited to visit China? Ridiculous.
The president and the military have failed the people of the United States to protect them. We have the weakest leader ship in American history right now.
The Chinese spy balloon flew into U.S. territory, improperly stealing U.S. intelligence, and most importantly, violating U.S. sovereignty, arguing that the U.S. is an incompetent and decaying nation, so why doesn't the U.S. government shoot it down to defend U.S. sovereignty?
If these 'balloons' continue to fly untouched as they have been up to now, we might even see them over Europe soon...
Don't throw stones when your own house is made of glass.
He is not even invited.
What are we waiting for? Let's ask Gary Powers and Russia if we should shoot it down?
This country is as weak as it has ever been! Congratulations Democrats! You are the party of Russia and China! Disgusting
Because he's a Russian spy.
He did the right thing
Why wouldn’t they just use google maps?
Blinker should jump on this balloon and in next 5 months he would arrive in China for his meetings. Just imagine the savings to the tax payers and the environment. And we wouldn’t miss him being gone for 5 months anyway.
US military failure, while it could be an EMP device.
Fake news
Just a simple balloon and Blinken goes into panic station? This shows the Chinese are smarter and knows how to press the Secretary of State.
NOTE: The President of Spain warned that China is planning to take over the world using Chemical Warfare! China is NOT stupid - THOSE BALLOONS ARE NOT A MISTAKE. Has the USA considered - those balloons may be FILLED with CHEMICAL WARFARE waiting to be hit/burst to kill millions?
So it took some US citizens to make us aware of this thing in our skies? Where were our intelligence folks?
Americans thinks China, a wealthy country, with billion dollar satellites orbiting earth, owns the “spy balloon”😂
Coincidence Blinken was supposed to leave for Beijing tonight?
What I don’t understand is why it hadn’t been shot down? It’s clearly violating the USA’s airspace
Why shoot the balloon? What if it has something bad inside and it hits our air. Why not Scoop the balloon with A Drone and take It somewhere. Why so many Stories other than getting it out of our Sky's?
It is abundantly clear that Biden is compromised by the CCP. This is serious. Stolen elections have drastic consequences.
Oh the consequence that will have no affect on China
I hope that there china ballon aint carry’n some sorta of zombie virus or sprayin us with some woke mind control laser…. Just thought I would get my right wing wacko thoughts out there before I bang my sister later today… Yes..I am a proud father of a nephew
When will the Democrats ever say, 'Yes, we did the wrong thing, but here's how we'll fix it?' Never, they just try and blame everyone else, we all know it was Biden that caused the border crisis, but they insisted on blaming the Republicans WHAT
Just shoot it down and see what it’s really is
Sounds like the pentagon has wasted trillions of dollars not keeping the country safe
It’s just a gender reveal gone wrong.
This is a very good shooting target.🔫
Hope they are spraying us with biological warfare with that thing!
Don’t shoot it down. Bring it down and inspect it.
Get rid of this balloon SecBlinken ! You do remember 9/11, right? No flying object in our air space. POTUS 😡
Breaking news? The news should read, Trip canceled because of No Sack. Get on that plane and call them out!
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So we are just watching and waiting to see what will happen 🤔🫣😬🤯
USA and Canada look like a joke letting this Chinese spy balloon fly over American and Canadian air space. Ask yourself would China take it down? 100% YES. The fact USA and Canada don't act and take it down looks weak and scared of China and they are laughing at both countries
Hunter Biden, The Big Guy and his Family are getting a lot of money from China to not shoot down the Spy Balloon !
Interesting that Canada wasn't mentioned - Canadians work at NORAD because it's so far North and this surveillance balloon could potentially gather info about Canadian sites as well as American, that's why they are working together and will act together if necessary.
BULL SHIT, NORTH AMERICA LOOKING FOR USELESS TROUBLE!
Don’t you just love how CNN parrots the Party line as Sec.Blinken gave a speech on the balloon in which he appeared to fold like a cheap suit.
USA is just hyping the situation for some reason 🤷🏻♂️
To be fair, perhaps this is merely a trial balloon.
CNN call this traitor administration for what it is, another debacle empowering a communist adversary to just fly over us, lots of excuses why they didn't shoot it down. Just imagine if a U.S. spy balloon tried to fly over China, it would be taken out immediately and then some.
Just another Balloon Satellite in the Atmosphere released by NASA. Real time proofs Satellites do not exist as we were told.
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different sites to confirm the project
millions at a time so that we wouldn’t be able to take them all down before the reach their destinations. They also have controllable versions that can adjust altitude using remote drop sandbags and gas valves. The Chinese government openly talks about this and has multiple
This is just a test run, they’re tracking its travel for super cheap weapons delivery system. The idea behind it is to use the natural trade winds to deliver chemical and tactical weapons to the US in such a way that it’s undetectable by radar and cheap enough that they can send
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Can't we just shoot the balloon? I'm pretty sure the Chinese would have more sophisticated means of surveillance anyway.
The whole world is walking all over this Administration, what an embarrassment
That will tell china
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Is this REAL NEWS? Is the Communist NETWORK NEWS making 💩 up again literally? 😂 🦊🐶💋
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He's your guy
What a disaster this president is! BidenBalloon
What was he going over there for, to collect a suitcase full of cash for the Biden Crime Family
Gender reveal gone wrong?
GERM RELEASING WARFARE BALLOON concern! Could the balloon from communist China possibly be a vessel containing GERM WARFARE, like a Trojan Horse? (Balloon may be releasing germ warfare?).
lol real tough. This response is weak.
lolololol
Fuck that….. he should go over and start lying down the law
Pentagon discovers North Korean balloon.
shoot it down
Open borders in sky and on ground…open season on USA, violators welcome!
Weakest administration ever
Where is potus?! Every time there is a major national security crisis under his watch he just crawls into the fetal position and disappears!
Shoot it down! The Chinese wouldn’t hesitate if the situation was reversed. Hesitation is weakness and will only invite further incursions of this nature. No self-respecting nation should allow this to happen. I say the same thing to the government here in Canada.
When it gets above a big city like Chicago, it will spew out it's Covid 23 load.
Why is it still in the sky
China sends a spy plane, we withhold Antony Blinken from their presence in retaliation as the balloon continues to fly lol
This gov looks week
Surprising enough China does the right thing and confess and apologizes!
Why can’t the US do the same?
Beijing Biden is airlifting classified documents?
I hate this people are whoever support em...anything they see is against em...even if its not a threat...but since they're the real Evil everything to em is evil especially when your not their friend
You can easily watch it:
Just a mere balloon makes someone change visit plans and instead visits a country murdering innocent neighbors each day. This astonishes the world so much and demeans US Human Rights policies. Too funny.
So convenient 😏
Would have never guessed there were so many experts on shooting down spy balloons here on Twitter.
blinkin is china's puppet,he should confront china to deal with balloon in usa
😂
Some of y'all are not to bright if you think this is a spy balloon.
Give me a break! 1 F16 fighter. Problem solved.
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So America, a super power, is panicking over a balloon which they suspect to be a China's spy balloon. WOW.😝😝😝
And next, Susan Collins will send Xi a firmly worded letter.
If everyone sees a big ballon in the sky, it’s not a SPY ballon.
A close-up…
the great USA is unable capture a balloon .....
Is the balloon a modern Trojan horse, whereby if we shoot in down, is it booby trapped to spread deadly chemicals, cause an explosion or think would it could just drop chemicals over the Great Lakes and make over supply deadly How do we now what is on the balloon?
I encourage citizens to get out there and start shooting it down
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Wow. That’ll show them 🙄
If you believe this big balloon is used by China to spy on America, you need to be sent back to the year 1650 🤷♂️
Oooo... that'll show em
The Biden Administration is WEAK!! This is a National Security Threat!! Biden should doing something about this!! Is He Afraid of China 🇨🇳 or does China 🇨🇳 have Something on him
They should sanction China for the simple reason they're putting people at harm
Ridiculous. As if the Chinese military would believe this would go undetected. Of course it's a civilian use. Balloons aren't steerable.
The Ballon is filled with covid 23
Why the panic🤣
Anyone who has been involved in analysis of PLA tactics, techniques and procedures know this balloon in our air space is no accident. The PLA captured SIGINT on time to detect, time to protect missile assets, time to launch surveillance aircraft, time to alert the public, etc.
Shoot it down
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I keep wanting them to drop a net or something on this thing and grab it already. Can't anyone in our entire huge government figure out how to safely capture and bring down this thing?
XPing envoie un ballon 🎈 sur les USA et rigole dans son bureau !
Biden should have ordered it shot down when it was over a sparsely populated area. This administration is 100% incompetent!!!
Let’s let it cross the country taking information, then we’ll figure out what it was? Ever hear of a lasso? Lasso it and bring it down.
Who cares whatever contrived reasoning they give for its existence…what it has become (whether intended or not) is a test of our national security, and the DeptofDefense is failing spectacularly. Honestly, could our defense/response look any weaker? This is outrageous.
Here's a closeup.. Nothing to see here.. Probably
China has satellites… why would this be a worry
Postpone? That's it? I won't meet you today because you hurt my feelings I'll see you when I recover in a week or so. Why not send the LGTQIA2+ people of the cabinet to teach the Chinese about the true power of the USA?
Chinese spy balloon, huh? Unless the Yankees have captured it and seen that that is isn't a weather/atmosphere/pollution monitoring system... be quiet.
Here's a close-up.. Nothing to see here.. Probably
Ffsake
No one cares about US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. G188 no longer trusts G7
There doesn't seem to be any urgency to remove this ballon
The right decision. It's not credible what the Chinese are claiming.
This is a blatent result of our feckless leadership. SMDH.
China is just suffering from IBS: irritable balloon syndrome
Definitely lying or the balloon wouldn't be flying where our nuclear silos are located, it's no coincidence.
Blinken wimped out.
10 kids with slingshots have entered the chat
this is not a spy balloon
Israel and countless others would have blasted this think from the sky. We look like weaklings.
It's a RECON Balloon, in our AIRSPACE. Shoot it down!
If it’s purpose was to track weather in china but got lost in the US then why cancel your trip? Why not take it down then? 🤔
Excellent decision
Wow what courage Tony…..thanks for securing our airspace…..kinda like the border
Albania Blinken couldn't find his own arse with a Compass and a Chinese Spy Balloon 💭
May be a SOS signal from some chinese citizen because of the lockdowns.
Just because of a balloon 🎈🎈😜
This sends a message that something is afoot out of one side of their mouth, while out of the other side, making no big deal of the situation… Which side of the mouth is telling the truth…
Used mainly for meteorological purposes and just a tiny bit of spying. No biggie.
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Terrible when your plans go up in the air
They are just taking pictures..trying to find the best place to offload troops.. no big deal.
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Seems like it would be an opportune time for a diplomat to visit.
I guess they won't mind if it gets destroyed real quick
It could contain a bio weapon. Or a boy.
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We should shoot it down and make sure.
Who do u believe nowadays 😂
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“We knew nothing about it…”
Sureeeeee 🤨
US Government: 'oh!!! Lol...why didn't you say so? That's cool, bro. Float on then!'
Yeah right
A civilian airship “deviated off course”? What a load of rubbish.
It's a Go Fu...
This is just like what the US tried to say when U2 got shot down. It’s obvious it’s not a weather balloon.
Thank God- I was a little worried there for a bit... 🖕
This attitude of “there’s nothing to see here” is so sickening to me. If this administration was based on performance like the way companies do it, they would all be terminated.
I believe everything CNN and China says.
Why should anyone believe China or CNN?
How come
not buying it
How does a balloon from China get all the way to Montana without our military noticing?
But media needs a story .
Well we know if China says it, it must be true.
Yeah, aiight
Yeah sure
'Off course' ? I Googled it. It's 6300 miles!!!!!! Take about a little off course !!?!?!?!?
And totally coincidentally maneuvered itself above an ICBM facility…
I make up stories like this when I get home from shopping at Target.
Yeah and then it hovers over a military base in Montana.. sureeee
We’ll I believe them they’ve always been straight with us
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