NewsWorldThe Pentagon assures that another Chinese spy balloon flies over Latin America

The Pentagon assures that another Chinese spy balloon flies over Latin America

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The United States Department of Defense warned this Friday night that it detected the passage of a second Chinese spy balloon over Latin America, although without specifying in which area.

The news was reported by international news agencies after Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a planned visit to Beijing following the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy balloon in US airspace.

According to China, it is a device of a “civilian nature for meteorological affairs” that deviated from its original course, in a new diplomatic incident between the two superpowers.

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However, officials from the Secretary of State claimed that there was “a Chinese surveillance balloon currently flying over the United States at high altitude, this is a clear and unacceptable violation of American sovereignty,” according to the AFP news agency.

On Friday, Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder told CNN that they were “seeing reports of a balloon in transit over Latin America.”

“Now we assess that it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” he said without giving further details about the location of the device.

The highest ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces and top military adviser to President Joseph Biden, Mark Milley, recommended against shooting down the first balloon that had been detected near Montana because it did not pose a military threat.

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