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US downs Chinese balloon, a flashpoint in US-China tensions

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China spy balloon moving east over US, Pentagon says

China claims balloon is weather research “airship” that blew off course.

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Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks briefs media during a press conference at the Pentagon in September 2021.

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The Pulse program took five months to pull together. Such a pace, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said, was an “extraordinary feat."

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