Two suspected Chinese weather balloons flew across the sensitive Taiwan Strait on December 17 but stayed well to the north of Taiwan, the island’s Defence Ministry said on December 18, the second time this month Taipei has reported them nearby.
The potential for China to use balloons for spying became a global issue in February when the United States shot down what it said was a Chinese surveillance balloon, but which China said was a civilian craft that accidentally drifted astray.
