WASHINGTON — The United States said on Friday (Feb 17) it had successfully concluded recovery efforts off South Carolina to collect sensors and other debris from a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by a US fighter jet on Feb 4, and investigators are now analysing its 'guts.' The last of the debris from the Chinese balloon, which was downed...
A handout photo. Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude Chinese balloon shot down by the US Air Force off the coast of South Carolina for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek on Feb, 7, 2023 in this image released by the US Navy in Washington, US, on Feb 13, 2023.
"We're going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it and seeing how it worked and what it was capable of," he told a White House news briefing. The episode caused an uproar in Washington and led the US military to search the skies for other objects that were not being captured on radar. The military's Northern Command carried out an unprecedented three shoot-downs of unidentified "objects" between last Friday and Sunday.
That Blinken trip would have been the first by a US secretary of state to China in five years and was seen by both sides as an opportunity to stabilise increasingly fraught ties.
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