US-China Relations

Tensions between the U.S and China have been rising over the years, ranging from trade and tariffs to tech rivalry and alleged spying.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, sending a powerful message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over the fighting in Ukraine have fallen short.

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says China sent 25 warplanes and three warships toward the island on Wednesday, as tensions remain high between Beijing and Taipei’s main backer Washington.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says U.S. intelligence suggests China is considering providing arms and ammunition to Russia. He says such an involvement in the Kremlin’s war effort would be a “serious problem.” Blinken says he shared his concerns with China’s most senior foreign policy official when they met Saturday in Munich during an international security conference. Russian President Vladimir...

Decisions to shoot down multiple unidentified objects over the U.S. and Canada this month have put a spotlight on amateur balloonists who insist their creations pose no threat.

Key equipment now in U.S. possession could reveal what information the ballon was able to monitor and collect.

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it found a Chinese weather balloon on one of its outlying islands, amid U.S. accusations that such craft have been dispatched worldwide to spy on Washington and its allies.

Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs Gen. Mark Milley said the first missile fired at the aerial object over Lake Huron missed. The second hit the target.

The Biden administration is forming an interagency group with the goal of addressing the recent spate of objects in the skies above North America, the White House announced Monday.

Four high-altitude objects have been shot down by the U.S. military since Feb 4. Here’s a timeline of those events.

The three objects were traveling at such a low altitude as to pose a risk to civilian air traffic, said White House national security spokesman John Kirby.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are holding drills in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon.

The sanctions came just hours after an American military F-22 shot down the second “high altitude object” to enter U.S. airspace in the past week.

Pentagon Spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick S. Ryder says the high-altitude object that was shot down off the coast of Alaska posed a “reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.”

NSC Coordinator John Kirby says the U.S. shot down a “high-altitude object” flying Alaska airspace on Friday. Kirby said the object was smaller than the spy balloon shot down last week.

The China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial surveillance program that targeted more than 40 countries, the Biden administration declared Thursday, citing imagery from American U-2 spy planes.

The Pentagon says the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years.”

U.S. officials say that efforts ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that after Biden took office, the U.S. “enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace,...

The U.S. has downed a Chinese surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast, according to a U.S. official.

President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he ordered U.S. officials to shoot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon earlier this week and that national security leaders decided the best time for the operation was when it got over water.