At the direction of President Biden, US fighter aircraft assigned to the US Northern Command successfully brought down the high altitude surveillance balloon launched and belonging to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the water off the coast of South Carolina in US airspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The balloon, which was being used by the PRC in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States, was brought down above US territorial waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, President Biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon’s path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After careful analysis, US military commanders had determined downing the balloon while over land posed an undue risk to people across a wide area due to the size and altitude of the balloon and its surveillance payload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In accordance with the President’s direction, the Department of Defense developed options to take down the balloon safely over our territorial waters, while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This action was taken in coordination, and with the full support, of the Canadian government. And we thank Canada for its contibution to the tracking and analysis of the balloon through NORAD as it transited North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today’s deliberate and lawful action demonstrates that President Biden and his national security team will always put the safety and security of the American people first while responding effectively to the PRC’s unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pentagon , America’s most feared defence headquaters in Virginia has issued a statement about the shooting down of alleged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/107188839-1675442946527-bal.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10975,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/scandalous-prince-harry-wins-phone-hacking-case-secrets-behind-this-bombshell-ruling-that-has-shaken-britains-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":8198,"position":0},"title":"Scandalous Prince Harry Wins Phone Hacking Case: Secrets Behind This Bombshell Ruling That Has Shaken Britain\u2019s Media","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"December 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Prince Harry won his phone hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) Friday, a landmark. decision when it comes to the history of the tabloid press in Britain. 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