Military observers in Taiwan discovered two Chinese balloons—similar to the spy balloons that invaded U.S. airspace this year—flying over their territory for the second time in a month, according to reports.
This from westernjournal.com.
According to ABC News:
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said, the balloons flew from China and over the Taiwan Strait on Sunday and made a path to the north of the island nation.
China has flown these balloons over Europe, the United States, South America and Taiwan, yet it has steadfastly maintained they are just engaged in benign weather data gathering—an extremely dubious claim.
The Defense Ministry said:
Another Chinese balloon crossed southwest of Keelung on Dec. 7.
According to NBC News:
The ministry said the balloons Sunday reached an altitude of 27,000 feet, went east and disappeared at 9:36 a.m. and 4:35 p.m. local time.
6 PLA aircraft and 2 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today. 1 of the detected aircraft (Y-8 ASW)had entered Taiwan’s SW ADIZ. #ROCArmedForces have monitored the situation and tasked appropriate forces to respond. pic.twitter.com/aSkwP8KPsI
— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) December 18, 2023
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry avoided describing the balloons as part of a spy operation, officially calling them “weather balloons.”
NBC News reported:
China’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the incidents.
But the balloon sightings come just ahead of Taiwan’s presidential election, which is scheduled for Jan. 13.
The front-runner is the Democratic Progressive Party’s William Lai, who openly favors the independence of Taiwan from the Chinese mainland.
It’s a position that the Chinese have denounced as “separatist” because China claims that Taiwan is Chinese territory even though it split from China in 1949 and has been self-governing ever since.
Americans are very familiar with Chinese spy balloons, even though the Obiden Regime worked assiduously to hide the fact that they were used for espionage.
The balloon that became a national fascination was first reported floating over the United States on Feb. 2.
The Regime let it go wherever the Chinese directed it to go over U.S. territory—including over military sites—without bothering to shoot it down until it had crossed the whole length of the country and floated out over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina.
The Pentagon finally shot it down on Feb. 4.
Chinese spy balloon shot down. #ChineseSpyBalloon pic.twitter.com/2LNUUf0Qpr
— Devon Pace (@elitedevon) February 4, 2023
NBC News reported in April:
[T]he Chinese spy balloon had gathered intelligence from U.S. military sites, and U.S. efforts to block it from doing so were not successful.
Three months later, however, The Regime insisted:
[T]he balloon was not collecting information on the American targets over which it flew.
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a June 29 news conference:
In terms of … the balloon and … the capabilities that it has, as you heard at the time, we were aware that it had intelligence collection capabilities, but it … has been our assessment now that it did not collect while it was transiting the United States or over-flying the United States.
The whole incident caused Americans to wonder
who The Regime’s Pentagon is working for.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said in a Feb. 4 social media post:
Joe Biden has just given the ‘okay’ for Chinese spy balloons to fly all over our nation.
Further:
Have we ever looked weaker?
Joe Biden has just given the “okay” for Chinese spy balloons to fly all over our nation.
Now there’s one flying over Latin America, too.
Have we ever looked weaker?
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) February 4, 2023
This was not the only Chinese spy balloon spotted, either. That same week in February, the Pentagon said another balloon was seen floating over Latin America.
The world needs to step up and stop allowing the communist Chinese to disrupt, surveil, and plan the destruction of every nation outside of their borders.
China is a rogue nation that will stop at nothing to get what it wants. Enough is enough.
Final thought: This has been more Obama fundamental transformation of America. He wants our beloved country to be as emasculated and effeminate as he is.
What will it take for the remaining testicular fortitude in our armed forces to rise up and put down this communist/globalist putsch.