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Taiwan says it has found the remnants of what appears to be a crashed Chinese weather balloon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Taiwan’s military said it had spotted an unidentified object drifting above Dongyin – a Taiwanese-controlled island off China’s coast – at 11:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It later found a crash site on a shooting range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Initial investigations suggested the remnants were part of a meteorological instrument, the military added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Friday, Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said that officials would further investigate the crashed balloon but would not “jump to conclusions”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the first time remnants of such a balloon have been discovered in Taiwan’s offshore islands, said senior defence official Chen Yu-lin, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tensions between China and the US have seen a fresh spike<\/a> in recent weeks, after the US downed what it said was a Chinese surveillance balloon<\/a> in its airspace earlier this month. The US also shot down three other objects it says are unlikely to be foreign spy crafts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Taiwan says it has found the remnants of what appears to be a crashed Chinese weather balloon. Taiwan’s military said it had spotted an unidentified object drifting above Dongyin – a Taiwanese-controlled island off China’s coast – at 11:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday. It later found a crash site on a shooting range. Initial investigations suggested the remnants were part of a meteorological instrument, the military added. On Friday, Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said that officials would further investigate the crashed balloon but would not “jump to conclusions”. This is the first time remnants of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30428,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30426\/revisions\/30428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}