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China Special Report: Concerns Over China Reach New Heights

Feb. 16, 2023 | By Chris Gordon, Greg Hadley and Tobias Naegele
USAF Bursts Chinese Surveillance Balloon, as Nation Comes to Grips With an Ever-More Assertive People’s Republic. 

LISTEN: New Details from the Audio of the Chinese Spy Balloon Shoot Down

Feb. 7, 2023 | By Chris Gordon
Recordings of radio transmissions, synced up with video, shed new light on how an F-22 shot down a Chinese spy balloon. Flight trackers and ordinary citizens were able to monitor radio frequencies and air-tracking services as the F-22 Raptor scored its first known air-to-air kill,

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