{"id":52326,"date":"2023-02-03T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T06:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/spy-balloons-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-still-being-used"},"modified":"2023-02-03T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T06:14:03","slug":"spy-balloons-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-still-being-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52326","title":{"rendered":"Spy balloons: what are they and why are they still being used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea emerged during the American civil war, so what is their appeal now, in the age of the satellite?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/02\/pentagon-chinese-spy-balloon\">Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Thursday, the Pentagon said it was tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/02\/pentagon-chinese-spy-balloon\">a Chinese spy balloon flying across the US<\/a>. They may not hold the same intrigue as a buttonhole camera or arsenic hidden in a tooth, but spy balloons have been used for centuries \u2013 and, experts say, their use is likely to increase in future.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/spy-balloons-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-still-being-used\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea emerged during the American civil war, so what is their appeal now, in the age of the satellite?Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over USOn Thursday, the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon flyin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52326\/revisions\/52338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}