
US House votes to condemn China over balloon surveillance
The 419-0 action comes as lawmakers clamoring for information about the white balloon that flew over American skies were being briefed by U.S. officials in a classified session
The 419-0 action comes as lawmakers clamoring for information about the white balloon that flew over American skies were being briefed by U.S. officials in a classified session
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A fleet of balloons operates under the direction of the People’s Liberation Army and is used specifically for spying, the U.S. said
Mandatory spending on the programs accounted for about $2.1 trillion in fiscal 2022, which ended last June 30 – a sizable chunk of the nation’s $5.8 trillion federal budget
It was down nearly 28% from the 38.2 million people who saw the president’s address in 2022
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When similar devices passed over US territory during the Trump and Biden administrations, they were not immediately identified as Chinese surveillance balloons
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The US president addressed Congress in an event marked by China, the Ukraine war, gun and police reform and calls for unity in defense of democracy
His speech before a politically divided Congress comes as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad
The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year
The White House said the guests were invited ‘because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the president’ or they embody the administration’s policies
On Tuesday night, the president of the US will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since the midterm elections. Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into painful focus by recent events
Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint over the ‘US attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force’
The president was expected to devote much of his speech to highlighting his efforts over the past two years to create jobs, fight inflation and improve the nation’s infrastructure
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Beijing responded that it reserved the right to ‘take further actions’ and criticized Washington for ‘an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice’
Hundreds of party leaders from around the country interrupted him with cries of “Four more years! Four more years!”
China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite US suspicion it was spying
The discovery has further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington
A senior defense official said it has ‘limited’ value in terms of providing China intelligence it couldn’t already collect by other means
‘We should not delay. And we will not be denied,’ Kamala Harris said to applause in Memphis, Tennessee. ‘It is non-negotiable’
It isn’t clear yet what the investigators are looking for by taking custody of the documents from his time as vice president and his decades in the Senate