{"id":56325,"date":"2023-06-30T04:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/29\/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden"},"modified":"2023-06-30T06:54:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:54:45","slug":"us-says-chinese-spy-balloon-downed-in-february-did-not-collect-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56325","title":{"rendered":"US says Chinese spy balloon downed in February did not collect information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craft was shot down by US military off Atlantic coast on president\u2019s orders earlier this year<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese spy balloon shot down by a US fighter jet over the Atlantic in February did not collect intelligence as it flew across the United States, the Pentagon said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been our assessment now that it did not collect intelligence while it was transiting the United States or overflying the United States,\u201d said a Pentagon spokesman, Pat Ryder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/29\/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-information-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craft was shot down by US military off Atlantic coast on president\u2019s orders earlier this yearThe Chinese spy balloon shot down by a US fighter jet over the Atlantic in February did not collect intelligence as it flew across the United States, the Penta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,2854,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-china-spy-balloon-incident-2023","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56325","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56325\/revisions\/56331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}