Category: Chinese spy balloon

Anthony Furey: China’s ‘Unidentified Objects’ Over North America: Let’s Talk About Canada’s Defence Capabilities

Commentary The initial news that a spy balloon from China was hovering over the continental United States caught many people by surprise. We’re just not used to seeing that sort of thing happen. It seemed so out of place for our times. It had the feel of something either historical, like out of the Cold…


Republicans Raise Concerns After Two Objects Shot Down over Alaska, Canada

Republicans are raising concerns following actions by the U.S. military to shoot down two objects over Alaska and Canada recently, after a Chinese spy balloon was taken down off the South Carolina coast last week. “Defending our borders and our national security interests requires military dominance and the political will to utilize that dominance,” Rep….


PREMIERING 2/14 at 7:30PM ET: Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America

“I’m just bewildered that these two evil regimes are so asymmetrically treated as we saw with the balloon … Had Russia done that, we would have shot that down the moment it got near the Aleutians,” says Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, and author of a number of best-selling books, including most recently…


US Imposes Sanctions on 6 Chinese Firms Over Spy Balloon Programs

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it found to have aided Beijing’s surveillance balloon programs in the wake of one such balloon that floated over the United States for a week gathering intelligence. In a statement issued on Feb. 10, the Commerce Department identified five companies and a research institute involved in efforts…


American Public Not Getting Full Story on Chinese Balloon, Says Former Acting Secretary of Defense

Christopher C. Miller, who served as the acting secretary of defense during President Donald Trump’s last days in office, has said the American public is getting “Orwellian tap dancing” from the current administration about the Chinese high-altitude balloon that drifted across the United States last week and may have surveilled the country. The high-altitude balloon…


Trudeau Says He’s Briefed About Unknown Flying Object in US Airspace Downed Off Alaska Coast

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has been briefed on an unknown flying object that was found violating American airspace and was shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10. “This afternoon, an object that violated American airspace was brought down. I was briefed on the matter and supported…


Trudeau Says He’s Been Briefed About High-Altitude Object Shot Down Over Alaska

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has been briefed on the high-altitude object that was found violating American airspace and was shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10. “This afternoon, an object that violated American airspace was brought down. I was briefed on the matter and supported the…


2nd High-Altitude Object Shot Down Over Alaska

A second object was shot down. This time, President Joe Biden ordered troops to ground it over Alaska. The Pentagon says it posed a threat to civilian aircraft. Meanwhile, Biden says the Chinese spy balloon from last week did not pose a major breach, as the FBI sifts through the recovered debris. Questions are swirling…


PREMIERING NOW: Kash Patel: Biden Administration Diverts Attention From National Security Failures—From Chinese Spy Balloon to Fentanyl Crisis

“I can tell you without equivocation that during my tenure, there was not one shred of intelligence that came across that showed that even the possibility of a balloon from the Chinese Communist Party or otherwise was going to cross the territorial waters of the United States of America,” says Kash Patel. Defense officials have…


Kash Patel: Biden Administration Diverts Attention From National Security Failures—From Chinese Spy Balloon to Fentanyl Crisis

“I can tell you without equivocation that during my tenure, there was not one shred of intelligence that came across that showed that even the possibility of a balloon from the Chinese Communist Party or otherwise was going to cross the territorial waters of the United States of America,” says Kash Patel. Defense officials have…