Taiwan will shoot down mainland Chinese balloons if they are seen to present a threat, the island’s military has said. The statement from the Taiwanese defence ministry on Tuesday (Jun 27) came as new reports emerged of Beijing’s “spy balloon” programme in the region, with latest findings by the BB
Taiwan will shoot down mainland Chinese balloons if they are seen to present a threat, the island’s military has said.
Colonel Lo Cheng-yu of the ministry’s intelligence centre said the military had the situation around the Taiwan Strait under effective control and was tracking any movements of high-altitude balloons from mainland China. The BBC report quoted Synthetaic founder Corey Jaskolski as saying that a balloon that had crossed over Japan in 2021 was believed to have been launched from deep inside mainland China, south of Mongolia. “The BBC has been unable to confirm this,” the report said.
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