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Spy balloon confirms ‘pattern of Chinese behavior’ that poses threat to NATO members, Stoltenberg says

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg delivers remarks to the news media as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosts Stoltenberg at the State Department in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2022.

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WASHINGTON – The Chinese spy balloon that drifted across the United States last week presents security challenges for NATO’s 30-member alliance as well as other countries around the globe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

“The balloon over the United States confirms a pattern of Chinese behavior where we see that China has invested heavily in new capabilities, including different types of surveillance and intelligence

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Blinken postpones his Beijing trip after a Chinese balloon is spotted over Montana

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Updated February 3, 2023 at 9:33 PM ET

The U.S. State Department says Secretary Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to Beijing amid concerns about a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over U.S. airspace.

The Pentagon said Thursday it had “very high confidence” that the high-altitude surveillance balloon came from China and is being used to collect information from sensitive sites.

China’s foreign affairs ministry confirmed on Friday that the balloon is theirs, but called it a “civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes,” that had gone off course by accident.

“Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering

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Where are Chinese travelers heading now that borders have reopened?

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Xiongjie Dai, a freelance software engineer living in the Chinese city of Suzhou, dreams about his first big trip post-Covid-19.

The 32-year-old says destinations like South Korea, Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Australia rank high on the list. But he has his eyes set on the US.

“When I have enough money, I’d like to visit America first,” he tells CNN Travel.

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How Hangzhou Freed West Lake and Upended Chinese Tourism

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In 2002, when the eastern city of Hangzhou launched a 100-million-yuan “Westward Expansion of West Lake” project, there was reason for skepticism. One of China’s most famous historical sites, West Lake has been a fixture of poems, paintings, and calligraphy for hundreds of years. By the end of the last century, however, it was beset by a series of increasingly hard-to-ignore problems: water pollution, bad roads, poor maintenance, and encroachment by the fast-developing villages around its boundary.

That the Hangzhou city government would try to address these issues through a huge infrastructure program hardly came as a surprise. What did

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