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Why China is sending high-altitude balloons toward Taiwan

Por: Newsweek World December 24, 2023

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The pair of Chinese balloons that drifted through the Taiwan Strait earlier this week, leading to concerns over whether they were being used for spying, were likely weather balloons.However, that doesn't rule out the balloons, which bring the month's total to five, carried intelligence-collecting equipment, Jeremy Hung, a researcher at the Taiwanese think tank the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, pointed... + full article



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