Indo-Pacific

Protesters holding up a banner outside the West Kowloon Magistrates Court before the trial against 47 pro-democracy activists on February 6, 2023, in Hong Kong. (Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 conducts a search for debris with an underwater vehicle during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean on February 7, 2023. (US Navy Photo by Ryan Seelbach)

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin at the Department of State in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2023, hours after cancelling his state visit to China in light of the surveillance balloon controversy. (State Department photo by Ronny Przysucha)

A People's Liberation Army Air Force WZ-7 high-altitude reconnaissance drone in Guangdong, China, on September 27, 2021. (Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

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A US Air Force pilot takes off in an F-22 Raptor as part of the mission to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon that crossed into US airspace at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia on February 4, 2023. (US Air Force photo by Mikaela Smith)

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A US Army balloon flies as part of a training mission in Diest, Belgium, on June 7, 2016. (US Army photo byTracy McKithern)