Watch: Pentagon holds briefing amid Chinese spy balloon incident
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Your support makes all the difference.The Pentagon held a press briefing in the aftermath of a Chinese surveillance balloon being detected over the US.
As expected, it was a primary focus of Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder’s conference.
He has previously said that the government was “tracking” the “high altitude surveillance balloon.”
Dubbed a “spy balloon,” the surveillance tool was spotted over Montana on Thursday, 2 February.
Secretary of state Antony Blinken has now postponed a planned trip to China in the wake of the discovery of the balloon.
It comes after Beijing admitted that it was responsible for its presence over the continental United States.
A spokesperson for the Chinese government claimed it is a “civilian airship” intended for climate research.
The trip has been in the pipeline since Joe Biden met with Xi Jinping last year.
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