{"id":52473,"date":"2023-02-09T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/downed-balloon-one-of-a-fleet-of-chinese-surveillance-devices-us-alleges"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T03:29:43","slug":"downed-balloon-one-of-a-fleet-of-chinese-surveillance-devices-us-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52473","title":{"rendered":"Downed balloon one of a \u2018fleet\u2019 of Chinese surveillance devices, US alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US \u2018not the only target\u2019 of Chinese surveillance, warns US secretary of state, as FBI investigates balloon wreckage<\/p>\n<p>China has a \u201cfleet\u201d of surveillance balloons of different shapes and sizes, which it has deployed over five continents, US officials have claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations on Wednesday came as salvage work continued off the South Carolina coast for the debris from a high-altitude <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/05\/now-the-chinese-spy-balloon-is-down-the-question-is-what-was-it-for\">Chinese balloon a US jet fighter downed<\/a> on Saturday after it had crossed the whole of the continental US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/downed-balloon-one-of-a-fleet-of-chinese-surveillance-devices-us-alleges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US \u2018not the only target\u2019 of Chinese surveillance, warns US secretary of state, as FBI investigates balloon wreckageChina has a \u201cfleet\u201d of surveillance balloons of different shapes and sizes, which it has deployed over five continents, US officials have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[41,50,667,474,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-surveillance","category-us-national-security","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\/52473","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52473\/revisions\/52474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}