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Taiwan Says ‘Dozens’ Of Chinese Spy Balloons Have Entered Its Airspace In Recent Years: Report
Forbes ^ | February 12, 2023 | Matt Novak

Posted on 02/12/2023 10:10:12 PM PST by familyop

“Previously, Taiwan’s defense ministry had only confirmed one incident in February last year, in which multiple Chinese balloons in four batches loitered over the north of the country,” the new report from the Financial Times explains. The spy balloons over Taiwan are suspected to be the kinds of reconnaissance necessary for a full-scale invasion of the country,...The Financial Times reports that experts believe the balloons seen over Taiwan were developed by the Equipment Development Department, which develops weapons under China’s Central Military Commission.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: taiwan

1 posted on 02/12/2023 10:10:12 PM PST by familyop
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To: familyop

I think it’s high time for other countries to return the favor to China. Let’s send China all manner of balloons; big, small, quiet, beeping, maybe even flame throwing!
And if China so much as dares to shoot down one of our balloons, we tell them, they just better think twice about it!


2 posted on 02/12/2023 10:15:13 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

The only reason Biden is likely to send balloons over China is the deliver voting ballots.


3 posted on 02/12/2023 10:33:23 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: familyop

Could the big balloon have been some type of mothership gathering apparatus? And these new objects that are being found were the children that each have different specific abilities?


4 posted on 02/12/2023 11:13:57 PM PST by databoss
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To: Telepathic Intruder
The only reason Biden is likely to send balloons over China is the deliver voting ballots.

And pallets of money.

5 posted on 02/13/2023 12:43:28 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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China should release them in the shape of dragons... lol


6 posted on 02/13/2023 1:12:32 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: familyop

Robert Barnes Retweeted http://Disclose.tv
JUST IN - Pentagon does not know to what keeps these “objects” aloft, unknown propulsion systems.

“We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,” says U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck.
MORE - General VanHerck says that he hasn’t “ruled out anything yet” when asked whether he rules out aliens.
UPDATE - Unnamed U.S. defense official now tells Reuters that there is “no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity” in recent takedowns of aerial objects.

Big Serge @witte_sergei
My theory about the airspace closures and intercepts is that the DoD cracked open that first Chinese balloon and found sensory capabilities that really freaked them out, so now they are being hyper-vigilant about any and all radar anomalies.

Letting the public speculate harmlessly about aliens is better than admitting that hostile systems can just waltz in past the radar filtering software.


7 posted on 02/13/2023 4:31:09 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Fox News (see quote below) received the same statement that was issued to other news companies.

US F-16 Fighter Jet Shoots Down Unidentified Airship in Great Lakes Region
By Jacob J
February 13, 2023
https://www.ibtimes.sg/us-f-16-fighter-jet-shoots-down-unidentified-airship-great-lakes-region-69023
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“Meanwhile, the US revealed that the unidentified objects that were shot down earlier in the week over Canada and Alaska were balloons that carried a payload.

The US officials described the airship as ‘small metallic balloon with a tethered payload,’ FOX News reported.”


8 posted on 02/13/2023 5:25:18 AM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Travis McGee

Our Defense does not need to tell the world anything that we don’t want China to know, so Bergman was incorrect and beside the point.


9 posted on 02/13/2023 5:41:07 AM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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