A U.S. missile shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean Saturday afternoon.
LiveNow from FOX caught the moment the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.triggered a diplomatic maelstrom and blew up on social media.
Image of a suspected Chinese spy balloon. China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite U.S. suspicion it was spying. He said the Chinese may have sent the balloon "to show us that they can do it, and maybe next time it could have a weapon. So now we have to spend money and time on it" developing defenses.According to senior administration officials, Biden initially wanted to shoot the balloon down. Some members of Congress have echoed that sentiment.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2023. Spy balloons aren't new — primitive ones date back centuries, but they came into greater use in World War II. Administration officials said Friday there have been other similar incidents of Chinese spy balloons, with one saying it happened twice during the Trump administration but was never made public.
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