Joe Biden added that he anticipates a discussion with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden, speaking on the United States’ response to recent aerial objects, stated, “The current assessment of the Intelligence Community is that these three objects were most likely balloons attached to private companies or research institutions conducting weather or other scientific research.”

The United States shot down the balloon, which China claimed was a civilian airship used for meteorological research, on February 4 after it had hovered over the country for a week.

“I want to make it clear that we have no evidence that the number of objects in the sky has suddenly increased. “We’re just seeing more of them because we’ve taken steps to increase our radars,” he continued.

Joe Biden added that these three objects could be associated with the Chinese spy balloon program or be surveillance vehicles from another nation.

He indicated that he will not shoot down every weather balloon the United States encounters, but will keep an eye out for future spy balloons.

“Make no mistake, if any object poses a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will remove it,” the president of the United States said.

Joe Biden suggests that the most recent objects were not part of a foreign intelligence program. “The three objects are most likely balloons attached to private companies, recreation or research institutions conducting weather or other scientific research,” he said.

The United States and China do not seek a “new Cold War.” “We will also continue to engage with China, as we have for the past two weeks,” Biden said, adding that US diplomats will remain in contact with their Chinese counterparts and that he will eventually speak with China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

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Biden also made clear that the procedure for removing unidentified objects will be classified in the future, but will be shared with Congress. Members of Congress had previously critical the White House for not sharing more information about the Chinese spy balloon program sooner.

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The United States has updated its friends and allies, including India, on the findings of the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman briefed officials from approximately forty embassies on the matter.

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Chinese spy balloons have gathered information on military assets in countries and regions of emerging strategic interest to China, such as Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The balloons have operated for several years partially from Hainan province off China’s southern coast.

According to the newspaper, officials have stated that these surveillance airships have been sighted over all five continents. These airships are reportedly managed in part by the air force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

According to a senior defence source who was quoted on the matter, “These balloons are all part of a PRC (People’s Republic of China) fleet of balloons built to perform surveillance activities, which also infringed the sovereignty of other countries.”

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In addition to the one that was monitored just last week, the daily reports that over the past few years at least four balloons have been seen flying over Hawaii, Florida, Texas, and Guam.
According to the report, three of the four incidents occurred during the time that President Trump was in office, but the Chinese surveillance airships responsible for them were just recently identified. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) published a sequence of photographs on Tuesday depicting the recovery of the high-altitude surveillance balloon.

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