By all indications, this balloon is not by itself an unprecedented threat, and the Pentagon says that its intelligence-collection abilities aren’t any better than other means at China’s disposal.

Tensions are escalating between the United States and China over the fate of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that wafted through U.S. airspace before a fighter jet shot it down off the coast of ...

Chinese officials confirmed Friday that the balloon is indeed theirs, but claimed it’s a civilian airship used for weather research. “The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used ...

Xi told Blinken the two "countries should be partners, not rivals," Chinese state broadcaster CCTV ... China of trying to collect sensitive information by flying an alleged spy balloon over ...

BEIJING--Diplomatic friction festered between the United States and China on Wednesday as Beijing charged that U.S. high altitude balloons flew over its Xinjiang and Tibet regions and said it ...