China has said the balloon, spotted over the state of Montana, is merely a "civilian airship" which deviated from its planned route, but the US suspects it is a "high-altitude surveillance" device.

The Department of Defence confirmed its fighter jets brought down the balloon over US territorial waters. China's foreign ministry later expressed "strong dissatisfaction and protest against the ...

high-altitude balloons from China have again been spotted floating over sensitive territory. This time, it is the main island of self-ruled Taiwan, which is days away from holding a presidential ...

The balloon, the Pentagon said, was "most certainly" sent by China to spy on the US. After first declining to say, China on Friday admitted the balloon was its own, though claimed it was just for ...

Chinese officials confirmed Friday that the balloon is indeed theirs, but claimed it’s a civilian airship used for weather research. “The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used ...

China also sent a flurry of balloons over Taiwan just days before the country's presidential election on Jan. 13, when Taiwan elected current vice president William Lai to be the next president.

Japan is debating the appropriate response to tackle such surveillance following the U.S. shootdown of a balloon from China. The threat came after the U.S. sanctioned six Chinese entities it said ...

China said that the US has flown more than 10 high-altitude spy balloons over its airspace since January 2022, as it responded to US outrage over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that flew over the ...

The balloon, a senior defense official told reporters, was believed to be from China. “[W]e have very high confidence that this is a PRC balloon. Very high confidence,” the official said.

BEIJING--Diplomatic friction festered between the United States and China on Wednesday as Beijing charged that U.S. high altitude balloons flew over its Xinjiang and Tibet regions and said it ...

Chinese balloons must be assessed within the context of decades of mutual espionage and an awareness of the many storms in the U.S.-China relationship — and the history of empires.