Taiwan has denounced having observed a multitude of Chinese spy balloons in its airspace in recent years.

The government of Taiwan observed crowd of Chinese spy balloons in its airspace in recent years, raising fears in Taipei that Beijing is preparing for an attack on the country, he reported.FinancialTimes‘.

“They come very frequently, the last one just a few weeks ago,” said a senior Taiwanese official. Another person connected to the case consulted by the aforementioned newspaper maintained that these raids took place on average once a month.

Previously, the Taiwan government had confirmed only one such incident as of February 2022in which several Chinese balloons would have flown over the north of the island.

Revelations of alleged spy balloon flights add a new perspective to the open conflict last week, as The United States shot down one of these balloons after it flew over their airspace..

Indeed, on Wednesday, US intelligence linked the Chinese spy balloon to a vast surveillance program orchestrated by the Chinese armythis is why he has already warned his allies of the Chinese maneuvers.

Washington has warned that in addition to the United States, China had hovered surveillance balloons over military assets in countries and areas of emerging strategic interest for the Asian giant, including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan or the Philippines, according to senior US officials told the newspaper.The Washington Post‘.

The US military shot down a flying object on Sunday over the lake ferretnear the Canada-US border, the fourth such interception by US aircraft this month, a Michigan congressman said.

the american representative Jack Bergman said on Twitter that the US military had shot down another “object” over Lake Huron. “I appreciate the decisive action of our fighter pilots,” he said.

Bergman said he had been in contact with the Department of Defense about this operation in the Great Lakes region, which became known after a temporary closure of airspace over Lake Michigan.

According to a source quoted by the CNNthe object was shot down by order of US President Joe Biden.

For now, no details are known about this object, although a lawmaker source told the newspaper The Wall Street Journal What it was shaped like an octagon and that it flew at an altitude of 20,000 feet (about 6,000 meters), so it posed a hazard to commercial aviation.

(With information from Europa Press)

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