The Pentagon said Friday evening it had observed another Chinese spy balloon — this one in Latin America — just hours after revealing that a similar balloon from China was making its way across the continental United States.
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the Defense Department was aware of reports of another balloon “transiting Latin America. We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon.”
The U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has postponed a visit to China after the intrusion of a separate high-altitude Chinese balloon into US airspace. Blinken would have been the first US secretary of state to visit China since October 2018, signaling a thaw after a period of friction under former president Donald Trump. READ MORE
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