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China’s Balloon Program Combines Commercial and Military Capabilities - WSJ

BEIJING—The recent appearance over the U.S. of a Chinese high-altitude balloon is shedding light on the interplay between China’s entrepreneurs, universities and the People’s Liberation Army, a fusion of strengths that Washington said is the basis of a spy-balloon program.

The U.S. government alleged this month that a fleet of Chinese surveillance balloons has flown over dozens of countries and several continents. On Feb. 4, a U.S. military jet shot down a Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast, and Navy divers in the Atlantic have salvaged some of the apparatus that had been sailing over America’s midsection.

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